Re: how to compare Oracle vs SQL-Server?

In article <4u4umf$6ts_at_vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, mikec_at_pcmail.pb.uiuc.edu says...
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>In article <32054736.5FC7_at_elmwood.com>, Bob Treumann <bobt_at_elmwood.com>
 writes:
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>>Can anyone point me to a resource to
>>compare Oracle and
>>SQL-Server on a feature by feature basis?
>>Opinions
>>from people who know both sytems well
>>would be
>>appreciated especially.
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>>Will post summary of replies received by
>>email.
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>Might I suggest you examine them both based on the features you need?
 This
>'let's make a chart to see which is better' mentality is precisely how
>microsoft's inferior products have come to dominate the home pc market -
 the
>bozo's that review these things never really consider useability,
 performance,
>elegance of design, they just count checkboxes. A small example that
 drives me
>batty: In the enterprise manager for sqlServer when you create an index,
 

>you're locked out of the whole application. You can't use the EM to
>examine or modify anything else - you have to wait for it to finish
 (thank
>goodness you can schedule most of these for late at night). Yet all the
 reviews
>care about is 'GUI for database maintainence - Check'. Of course most of
 these
>reviewers have only home/desktop windows experience, so they don't know
 what
>real multitasking can be like. Yikes! Sorry for the rant, it's just that
>looking for the manner in which these various products execute the
 features you
>need/desire would serve you better than a feature list. I mean, both
 Michael
>Jordan and I play basketball. <G>
>
>Mike
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While Mike appears to prefer Oracle or SQL Server and I would go in the opposite direction, I agree completely with the stupidity of the checkbox method of evaluation. To do the job right requires a weighting on the criteria based upon application requirements. But from another view, most of the popular DBMS's will work for most applications. We end up spending much more money in deciding which one is best then we will ever recover. The most "cost effective" way of choosing is probably a dartboard.

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