From: mikec@pcmail.pb.uiuc.edu (Mike Corn)
Subject: Re: Is MS-SQL6.5 in the same league as Oracle, Sybase?
Date: 1996/10/10
Message-ID: <MPLANET.325c1eb4mikec9896ac@news.cso.uiuc.edu>#1/1
references: <53gtku$gc7@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>
organization: University of Illinois
newsgroups: comp.databases.ms-sqlserver,comp.databases.oracle,comp.databases.sybase



In article <53gtku$gc7@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>, roussel@physics.mcgill.ca 
says...
> The title says it all.  I need to find a good SQL database system for
> handling up to 50 million records (database size of a few gigs) and I
> was wondering if I should limit my choice to Oracle or Sybase.  What
> about advanced features like data encryption, mirroring, etc?  Is
> MS-SQL up to the task?  Thanks for any information.
> 
> 

why not give DB2 a shot - either DB2/2 (OS/2) or DB2/NT - runs rings 
around sql Server.

Mike