Re: Crossing over from SQL Server
From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:48:00 -0700
Message-ID: <1213379277.1886@bubbleator.drizzle.com>
>
> I do not see how the MS rewrite for version 7 changes the history
> Daniel provided nor does it change the fact that SQL Server 2000 and
> Sybase still shared a hundred same named stored procedures for
> performing the same function within the database at the time SQL
> Server 2000 was released.
>
> Is SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 Sybase, no. But the two products do
> share some history. As more time goes by more divergence is taking
> place but history is still history.
>
> -- Mark D Powell --
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:48:00 -0700
Message-ID: <1213379277.1886@bubbleator.drizzle.com>
Mark D Powell wrote:
> On Jun 12, 11:10 pm, euan.gar..._at_gmail.com wrote:
>>> SQL Server >>> ----------------- >>> Well we all know how this came about don't we so need to dredge up the dirt. >> You know Daniel you continue to disapoint. The fact that you are >> teaching cross-over courses and yet still peddling this stuff is >> tragic. We've had this many times, yes a version of Sybase was based >> on the Ingres project and a version(actually set of versions) of SQL >> Server was based on Sybase but I once again refer you to this entry >> which explains the re-architecture work done starting with SQL 7 that >> makes this linking of yours beyond even tenous. >> >> http://blogs.msdn.com/euanga/archive/2006/01/19/514479.aspx >> >> Of course the tragic part in this particular thread is that original >> poster received very sound advice from everyone here, including you, >> without flaming/stupidity, right up to this whole history part of the >> thread. >> >> -Euan >> (Apologies if this is a double post I'm having weird timout issues)
>
> I do not see how the MS rewrite for version 7 changes the history
> Daniel provided nor does it change the fact that SQL Server 2000 and
> Sybase still shared a hundred same named stored procedures for
> performing the same function within the database at the time SQL
> Server 2000 was released.
>
> Is SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 Sybase, no. But the two products do
> share some history. As more time goes by more divergence is taking
> place but history is still history.
>
> -- Mark D Powell --
Exactly.
Some people seem to take great pleasure in denying, or rewriting, history.
-- Daniel A. Morgan Oracle Ace Director & Instructor University of Washington damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond) Puget Sound Oracle Users Group www.psoug.orgReceived on Fri Jun 13 2008 - 12:48:00 CDT