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Re: Oracle licence question

From: Jim Kennedy <jim>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 19:38:37 -0800
Message-ID: <lrOdnd4BypSmWJ7ZRVn-sQ@comcast.com>

"DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote in message news:1141062335.6587_at_jetspin.drizzle.com...
> Mark Townsend wrote:
> > Tony Rogerson wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Secure Application Roles are not included with Oracle Standard, but
> >> the equiv is with SQL Server Standard
> >
> >
> > Where is the doc citation for MS's equivalent of secure application
roles ?
> >
> >> Data Encryption is included with SQL Server Standard, it isn't in
> >> Oracle Standard
> >
> >
> > Data Encryption is in all editions of Oracle. It's just the transparent
> > data encryption that isn't. SQL Server does not have transparent data
> > encryption
> >
> >> Advanced Security is not included with Oracle Standard, nor is Label
> >> Security - again, all can be achieved in SQL Server standard.
> >
> >
> > You cannot do Label Security (or build a virtual private database) with
> > SQL Server.
> >
> >> No messaging
> >
> >
> > Messaging is in all editions of Oracle Database
> >
> >> There is a lot more missing too.
> >>
> >> So your statement above is just completely wrong and mis-leading.
> >
> >
> > Pot. Kettle. Black
> >
> >>
> >> And then rant you make about the salaries, if you've really been in IT
> >> for 36 years then you'll have a better understanding of the market
> >> place and realise people swap platforms, take me; 5 yrs DB2, 6 months
> >> Oracle and 13 years SQL Server and out of those 3 Oracle was quite
> >> definitely the hardest to work with (Oracle 7 i think it was).
> >>
> >
> > I am seriously starting to believe that any difficulty you may have had
> > with Oracle was more releated to an ability to understand what was
> > written in the docs. I will be magnanimous and assume that this was
> > purely the fault of the docs, for which I apologize.
>
> His inability is that he is a paid troll. He started out in DB2 and then
> became a part of the Borg. Now he is just a bloody chav doing
> Microsoft's bidding. The point, for him like with an attorney, is to be
> an advocate. Acknowleding facts just gets in the way (witness his
> off-target comments on Sarbanes Oxley of which he obviously knows
> precisely nothing).
> --
> Daniel A. Morgan
> http://www.psoug.org
> damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
> (replace x with u to respond)

I'm putting him in my kill file. (to paraphrase a certain English man) He is just noise signifying nothing.
Jim Received on Mon Feb 27 2006 - 21:38:37 CST

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