Re: SQL Server 7/2000 vs Oracle 8i

FWIW, I've logged 4 support incidents with MS in 8 years of working with their tools. Two of these were on a single project for a Fortune 100. In not a single case was the issue resolved by MS Support. Rather, you are left to your own devices to find an alternate approach to resolve the issue.

BTW, just to help you expand your Microsoft slang, a new term has been added for the .Net Framework in developing IIS apps - "Web Garden", which is a reference to a multi-CPU box.

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Michael D. Long
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"Roy Acres" <roy.acres_at_home.com> wrote in message
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> I agree completely with that statement.  My team only calls when they

> are really down to their knuckles with a problem... but MS Tech

> Support never seems able to resolve an issue.  We normally figure it

> out ourselves eventually, or find assistance through newsgroups or

> other forums.  We've heard "re-install" way too many times.

>

> Further, Oracle has recently revamped their pricing structures for the

> internet era... and the pricing is actually more attractive now.

>

> The comment by somebody earlier about figuring WinNT into the pricing

> scheme when comparing SQLServer to Oracle is correct.... one Unix box

> can support a number of Oracle databases, whereas MS has coined the

> term "server farm" (which has now become an actual term, it seems)

> because a WinNT investment often requires a series of these NT boxes

> for load balancing, increasing the investment costs.  (If I'm in error

> here, please correct me.)