Re: Informix vs. Sybase vs. Oracle vs. (gasp) MS SQL Server

>>>>> "Greg" == Greg <greg_at_cyberramp.net> writes:

Greg> 
Greg> 
Greg> Same reason practically noone writes assembler anymore.   Works great if
Greg> you futz with it enough.   No one can afford to futz with it enough
Greg> though.   It's just not economic to do so.  Unfortunately for Sybase,
Greg> they're learning this the hard way.    
Greg> 

... let's make it easy... why is Sybase's TPC-C's higher than Informix? They're both OLTP? As I said, row-level vs page-level is hype.

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