Re: VARCHAR2 storage on a page

"Pablo Sanchez" <pablo_at_dev.null> wrote in message news:whPC8.2$_D5.11298_at_news.uswest.net...
>
> "Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk> wrote in
> message news:3cdb7bdb$0$231$ed9e5944_at_reading.news.pipex.net...
> >
> > > I'm not a SQL Server defender but for that matter, I try not to
> defend
> > > any RDBMS. Like the vendor cares about me? Perish that
thought!
> > > What I believe is that with sufficient smarts, we as an
> engineering
> > > group, can run any RDBMS and make it perform well. Right?
> >
> > Certainly ought to be able to. It does take a lot of know-how
> though.
> >
>
> It does to a degree but once you have the fundamentals of how an
RDBMS
> works, it's relatively (to the first) to pick up another one, then
the
> third becomes easier and so on.

Eek, my glasses should be coming by next Monday ... what I meant to write above was:

It does to a degree but once you have the fundamentals down, the second RDBMS is easier to learn (relative to the first) and the third one even easier (and so on)

<g>

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