Re: Comparisons of TCA between Oracle and SQL Server

From: Brian Peasland <dba_at_nospam.peasland.net>
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 03:32:12 GMT
Message-ID: <J610I3.IK@igsrsparc2.er.usgs.gov>

DA Morgan wrote:
> hpuxrac wrote:

>> There's a fairly amusing item posted here ...
>>
>> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9002689&pageNumber=1 
>>
>>
>> What to me is most amusing is the methodology or lack thereof.  It
>> looks like the author created some kind of survey and had some set of
>> people fill it out.  Then he called it a study and attempted to draw
>> some conclusions from it.
>>
>> I guess I am getting old and perhaps am prejudiced by having parents
>> that conducted real research at reputable universities.

>
> Amusing? It is a bloody joke beginning with the first line of the table.
>
> Product Average number of databases per company
> ========================= =======================================
> Microsoft SQL Server 2005 107
> Oracle Database 10g 87
>
> SQL Server 2005 has been released software for how many months?
> ComputerWorld should apologize to its readers.

Apparently, SQL Server 2005 automatically upgrades without any DBA intervention. Similar to the way that MS servers can automatically apply patches without the SA needing to push any buttons.

ROFL!!! ;) Cheers,
Brian

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