Re: MS SQL Server vs Oracle, MySQL or MongoDB

From: Jeremiah Peschka <jeremiah_at_brentozar.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 10:46:08 -0700
Message-ID: <CAAP1c+nSjOXEhwBkzb50AaUs+V3oRzqTM-VkQT9OdAB0HN9Tbg_at_mail.gmail.com>

It could be that you already have SQL Server DBAs on staff. Re-training or hiring new people is an expensive proposition.

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Jeremiah Peschka - Managing Director, Brent Ozar Unlimited
MCSE: Data Platform, MVP
Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop

If one were to post to a mailing list populated by MCSEs you'd likely get
the info that you're after. Both Oracle and Microsoft have sales literature
published that comes back high up on the list of results from a search
engine. I take it that the list is now too polite to leverage "let me
google that for you ..."

Paul
On Aug 27, 2014 1:19 PM, "Kumar Madduri" <ksmadduri_at_gmail.com> wrote:



> Hello

> I have just started to understand and learn MS SQL Server 2012 and from

> what I understood so far

> Why would anyone want to implement MS SQL Server ?

> If cost is one reason, then there are options like MySQL or MongoDB which

> would be less expensive than Oracle and can be used on multiple platforms.

> If application vendor restricts to use MS SQL server then that is the only

> reason I find to use MS SQL Server.

> The other reason is probably the shop does not have unix sysadmins and are

> comfortable with windows (windows shop).

> Are there any other reasons why somebody would choose MS SQL server?

>

> Thank you

> Kumar

>


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