Re: Oracle vs MS SQL Server

From: Ng K C Paul <paulkcng_at_news.netvigator.com>
Date: 1998/08/21
Message-ID: <6rj8gr$pn1$1@imsp009a.netvigator.com>#1/1

I have different opinion. If you want to study at school, you should choose a more complicated and difficult database to learn.

Also, if you have a lot of disk space and internet time, you can also try to download oracle8 which is more than 150MB in compressd file.

Tony Rogerson (tonyrogerson_at_compuserve.com) wrote:
: If your starting from scratch, which it looks like you are, I'd opt for MS
: SQL Server, you can get up and running very quickly, Oracle tends to be more
: complicated and for a novice a bit more difficult not to mention more
: expensive.
:
: I'd also opt for version 7 of SQL Server, you can quite easily obtain the
: beta 3 from MS, the product ships later this year. 6.5 will still be around
: for a year or two, but 7 forms the next SQL Server for a long time to come.
:
: The only other thing I would say is to keep your mind open, some RDBMS
: producers are starting to get nervous about version 7 of SQL Server because
: it offers some much in terms of functionality and interfaces to other
: products.
:
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: Hope the above helps.
:
: Tony Rogerson
: Torver Computer Consultants Ltd.
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Received on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 00:00:00 CDT