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Re: Differences between Oracle,DB2,SQL2005 in cost estimation

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 11:17:31 -0700
Message-ID: <1180376250.844596@bubbleator.drizzle.com>


euan.garden_at_gmail.com wrote:

> On May 27, 11:42 am, DA Morgan <damor..._at_psoug.org> wrote:

>> euan.gar..._at_gmail.com wrote:
>>> You know Danel if you ever want to have a meaningful conversation
>>> about this stuff then you need to stop thinking in Oracle technology
>>> terms and start thinking in customer solution terms, that way we can
>>> actually compare Oracle toSQL Server, DB2, MySQL etc.
>> Wonderful idea. Lets talk about Oracle and not use Oracle terms and
>> talk aboutSQL Serverand not talk about Microsoft terms.
>>
>> I suggest we use the following common terms to begin the discussion.
>>
>> 1. Database
>> 2. Instance
>> 3. Log File
>> 4. NULL
>> 5. Temp Table
>> 6. Transaction
>> 7. Locking
>> 8. Cluster
>>
>> You go first.
>> --
>> Daniel A. Morgan
>> University of Washington
>> damor..._at_x.washington.edu
>> (replace x with u to respond)
>> Puget Sound Oracle Users Groupwww.psoug.org
> 
> LMAO you know sometimes I wonder why I bother having alerts on this
> forum and then you post something like this, oh the entertainment
> value.

In other words you don't understand the fact that the definitions of each of the above terms and/or its implementation is different in the two products. Thanks for the clarification.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org
Received on Mon May 28 2007 - 13:17:31 CDT

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