Re: SQL server Vs Oracle / access is a disaster...

From: Tony Toews <ttoews_at_telusplanet.net>
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 17:20:11 GMT
Message-ID: <373c5b96.214791423@news.telusplanet.net>

"Frédéric BROUARD" <f.brouard_at_simog.com> wrote:

>Type de données des tables 17
>11 Paradox

Sorry however I'm only fluent in English. Does this mean the number of data types? Ie, text, number, date/time, currency and so on?

I recall looking at a Paradox white paper done a few years back comparing Paradox and Access. I was quite impressed with a number of things until I came to a similar statement comparing the number of data types for fields in tables. Paradox had about five or six more than Accesses.

Then I realized that the Paradox folks had "forgotten" to include the number of number sub types, which were byte, integer, long integer, single and double. Thus their comparison was exceedingly invalid.

At which point I realized that all white papers from any source must be taken with a great deal of skepticism.

Tony

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