Re: Is MS-SQL6.5 in the same league as Oracle, Sybase?
Date: 1996/10/13
Message-ID: <8oSkYFADOUYyEw1V_at_pbrewer.demon.co.uk>#1/1
In article <53mkcd$s7p_at_netnews.hinet.net>, David Upham
<npis_at_ms1.hinet.net> writes
(stuff deleted)
>In reality, all three of the databases mentioned in the original post
>(and probably DB2 as mentioned by a response) will work. Each has
>advantages and each has disadvantages. It would be impossible to say
>which product would do the best job from the limited information given.
>
For what it's worth, I tend to agree.
I don't have enough technical expertise to debate 'feature points', but
it may be of interest to explain why we (recently) selected Oracle as
our database of choice.
We're currently running Oracle 7.3 on NT quite happily. Probably MS SQL
Server could fulfil our *current* needs, but we would be putting all our
eggs into one OS basket.
Oracle gives us other hardware/OS options for the future. I won't bet
*against* Microsoft, but for a few dollars more I can keep my options
open.
Paul Brewer Received on Sun Oct 13 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST