Re: What's wrong with SQL Server?

"yanban" <A_at_a.com> wrote in message news:<bcqac4$5kt$1_at_apollon.grec.isp.9tel.net>...
> > . SQL server big problem is the OS.....
>
> No, this is ONE of the big problem and the thing is that you can not just
> export/import to change OS when you decide to.
> Once you are married with MS, no way to divorce!.. how sad is that ?!
>
> The other thing , I am afraid, is concurrency : they don't know Rollback
> Segment and that's the whole thing!.. now if this is for a single user
> application, SQL Server might do ( consider as well Access... that might be
> enough :) )

I think most all us techie types agree that concurrency is a biggie. Unfortunately, it is underappreciated by the guy evaluating software for his 40 data entry goonies, since any packaged app is going to have at least that part written "properly" (that is, from the point of view of MSSQL style lock escalation and so forth). So that is why Oracle's lunch money is being taken away on the lower end of the market. Linux could fight that, but only if Oracle could reduce well to a smaller shop with a packaged app. That remains to be demonstrated. I for one wish it would be.

jg

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