Re: Crossing over from SQL Server

On Jun 13, 10:48 am, DA Morgan <damor..._at_psoug.org> wrote:
> 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. MorganOracleAce Director & Instructor
> University of Washington
> damor..._at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
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No denial, just trying to keep some relevance to the current day in your posts about non Oracle stuff.

-Euan Received on Fri Jun 13 2008 - 22:30:45 CDT