Re: being vendor neutral

From: Sybrand Bakker <sybrandb_at_hccnet.nl>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:44:11 +0100
Message-ID: <knan01dmrlt69b18okbjver22ebc63qgrh@4ax.com>

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:35:48 +0100, "Jan van Veldhuizen" <jan_at_van-veldhuizen.nl> wrote:

>I think it's only to keep a lot of work for all those Oracle and SqlServer
>consultants. Life would be a lot easier if the query language was
>standardized.

I am afraid you are too altruistic. As soon as there is a true standard, anyone could dump sqlserver for Oracle and vice versa. Obviously a true standard in not in the interest of Oracle, Microsoft, DB2, Informix, who all claim *their* implementation of SQL is the best one.
Why do you think Unix never really made it? Precisely because there has never been a standard Unix.

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Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

Received on Thu Feb 10 2005 - 12:44:11 CST