Re: FLAME Re: What about the Oracle vs Sybase Ads?

From: Randy Jordan <jordan_at_warped.pnl.gov>
Date: 18 Feb 93 17:27:33 GMT
Message-ID: <1993Feb18.172733.20555_at_oracle.pnl.gov>


In article <1993Feb18.090825.23139_at_qiclab.scn.rain.com>, tcox_at_qiclab.scn.rain.com (Thomas Cox) writes:
|>Xref: pnl-oracle comp.databases.ingres:209 comp.databases.oracle:2678 comp.databases.sybase:972
|>Path: pnl-oracle!ogicse!qiclab!tcox
|>From: tcox_at_qiclab.scn.rain.com (Thomas Cox)
|>Newsgroups: comp.databases.ingres,comp.databases.oracle,comp.databases.sybase
|>Subject: FLAME Re: What about the Oracle vs Sybase Ads?
|>Keywords: Oracle, Sybase, SQL, FLAME
|>Message-ID: <1993Feb18.090825.23139_at_qiclab.scn.rain.com>
|>Date: Thu, 18 Feb 93 01:08:25 PST
|>Article-I.D.: qiclab.1993Feb18.090825.23139
|>References: <1993Feb15.130303.22202_at_banana.fedex.com> <1993Feb15.153810.10549_at_mic.ucla.edu> <des.91_at_helix.nih.gov>
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|>des_at_helix.nih.gov (David E. Scheim) writes:
|>

|>
|>To refer back to the advertisement that started this flamewar, it really
|>is true that a couple of lines of ANSI SQL2 will replace a hundred lines
|>of Sybase Transact-SQL. And the SQL2 code runs *faster*, not to mention
|>being easier to write and maintain.

        Name ONE vender using FULL-UP SQL-2?

|>
|>Finally, if you're going to make the "practical in production" noise,
|>let's see ONE, just ONE, production site using Sybase's programmatic two
|>phase commit. I've been hearing about this for six years, and the damn
|>thing still isn't PRACTICAL IN PRODUCTION.
|>

        How MUCH longer will you wait for TPC for SQL2?

|> -Tom
|>--
|>Thomas Cox DoD #1776 '91 CB 750 Nighthawk tcox_at_qiclab.scn.rain.com
|> The Platinum Rule: "Do Unto Others As They Want To Be Done Unto"
|>

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