Re: Limitations of MSSQL Server Vs. Oracle OR simply otherwise li mitations in general - OT

From: Mladen Gogala <gogala_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 12:30:27 +0000
Message-Id: <1101299427l.16137l.0l@medo.noip.com>

There was an article discussed recently on comp.databases.oracle.server which can be used for a decent management presentation, for the PHB and =20 friends.
The article in question is full of gross factual inaccuracies, the most =20 flagrant being the statement on page 12 that PCTINCREASE cannot be defined for rollback segments, so rollback segments cannot grow. The =20 fact that despite not knowing a squat about oracle, the authors =20 concluded that oracle looks much better then SQL server only shows how bad SQL server really is. I made some comments on =20 comp.databases.oracle.server, Howard Rogers vivisected the article in =20 detail and the general conclusion is that the article is bad, but SQL =20 server is worse. I cannot fathom why do people expect the company that has created such a peace of s....oftware as Windows to create a good database software?
After the usual dose of rant about MicroS*t, the article is well =20 written and makes oracle look much better then MS-SQL Server. It =20 actually reveals the ugly truth: Oracle and SQL Server do not play in =20 the same league. You cannot compare little league teams to the Yanks =20 (if someone mentions things like the curse and some garments from NE, =20 I'll get seriously angry).

On 11/24/2004 07:04:50 AM, Boivin, Patrice J wrote:
> One thing comes to mind... SQL Server 2005 is not out yet, it's still
> in
> Developer Preview isn't it?

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> Maybe they could compare it with 10g Release 2 or perhaps Oracle 11?
> Maybe
> that will be out at the same time as SQL Server 2005.

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> Patrice.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edgar Chupit [mailto:chupit_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: November 23, 2004 2:00 PM
> To: vivek_sharma_at_infosys.com
> Cc: ORACLE-L
> Subject: Re: Limitations of MSSQL Server Vs. Oracle OR simply
> otherwise
> limitations in general - OT

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> Recently I've come across this link that could be an interesting
> comparison and couldn't resist from posting it to the list (although =20
> I
> must admit that I'm not fully agree with author):
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> http://www.wisdomforce.com/dweb/resources/docs/MSSQL2005_ORACLE10g_compar=
e.p
> df

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> Hope this will help.

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> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:36:17 +0530, VIVEK_SHARMA
> <vivek_sharma_at_infosys.com> wrote:
> > Folks
> >
> > Limitations of MSSQL Server Vs. Oracle OR simply otherwise General
> > limitations of MSSQL Server.
> >
> > Need to give a presentation to Management on the same=3D20
> >
> > Any Good Links, docs etc?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
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Mladen Gogala
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