Oracle-L: RE: MS SQL hasn't given up!

From: Boivin, Patrice J <BoivinP_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 08:59:14 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0055D0F8.20030228085914@fatcity.com>

Not sure if this is true... I heard that to back up the transaction log, the database has to be stopped.

???

Pat.

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Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 11:19 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Fresh in memory because 2 days ago I had meeting with MS SQL people from Microsoft.
I will talk about MS SQL 2000 Enterprise. 1. MS SQL cannot handle exception. There is nothing like EXCEPTION WHEN ... THEN. 2. MS SQL has nothing like package.

3. MS SQL has nothing like partitioned table (next release in 2 years will have)

4. There is nothing like INSERT NOLOGGING. You have start/stop logging for whole session.

5. There's nothing like sequence (Well, IDENTITY column IS NOT sequence).

6. Well, you can use undocumented function pwdencrypt and pwdcompare to store
passwords (the same hash function for storing users password is using MS SQL)
:-)

7. There is nothing like ARCHIVE MODE in MS SQL.

Just my notes from meeting.

On Thursday 27 February 2003 21:35, you wrote:
> I agree - the biggest advantage Oracle has to MS SQL Server is Unix
> stability to Windows stability.
>

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