Re: SQL Standards

From: loufoque <mat.wilmots.remove_at_nospam.wanadoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:56:04 +0100
Message-ID: <42314e50$0$31656$636a15ce@news.free.fr>

DA Morgan wrote:

> (A) purchases based
> on price alone

I don't know much about ANSI and ISO standards but I think they don't define the implementations.
Depending on the way the backend was designed, the DBMS can be more performant to do this or that.

I want a DBMS to be fast and stable, that's it. Proprietary features are just a bonus for special applications.

> (B) Microsoft wins.

I don't understand why.
About the price I would rather get a free DBMS like PostgreSQL -which is very good, by the way- Received on Fri Mar 11 2005 - 01:56:04 CST