Re: Is Oracle deliberately difficult?

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 11:06:47 -0500, "Jason Kratz" <jkratz_at_rctanalytics.debug.com> wrote:

>Sorry but this post reeks of Oracle elitism.

Good.

> All of the various relational
>db products out there server a purpose.

Nope. They might address a need, but they don't serve a purpose.

>Personally I always found Sybase
>much easier to work with.

Nothing wrong with that. But it would be interesting to know why.

> It might not be able to handle the same size db
>as Oracle but then again so what??
>

Well, probably because it was never designed to be a proper relational database management system. Just a database product, that's all. Nothing more. Totally out of proportion with their marketing hype of a few years ago...

Cheers
Nuno Souto
nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam
http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/the_Den/index.html Received on Wed Aug 30 2000 - 04:18:58 CDT