Re: Converting Microsoft SQL Server to Oracle

From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne_at_news.hex.net>
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 05:22:04 GMT
Message-ID: <0e2F2.20329$YV6.10293@news2.giganews.com>

On Thu, 04 Mar 1999 13:06:56 -0700, Darren Brock <brock_at_governet.net> wrote:
>Tony Rogerson wrote:
>> Out of interest, why are you moving to Oracle? Would SQL 7 not provide a
>> more stable platform without the pain of migration?

>I also have a question out of interest. Why do people have an aversion to
>Oracle? This is not the first time I've come across a very knowledgeable
>person claiming that SQL Server is "better" or "more stable" than Oracle and
>I can't help but think that it's because of the lack of nice GUI interfaces
>and people don't like working without them. I don't know if this is true,
>it's just made me curious. I've worked with SQL Server and Oracle and found
>that I like Oracle much better for several reasons and have found Oracle to
>be much more stable than SQL Server, but then again, my design techniques
>have grown and advanced also. So, what is the aversion?

This is about the first time that I've heard the comment of MS SQL Server 7 providing a "more stable platform."

As far as I know, MS SQL Server only runs on Windows NT, which is not considered to be a "more stable platform" than much of anything other than perhaps MS-DOS. Organizations pretty regularly run Oracle on HA systems, and UNIX vendors have been providing better than the NT promises of "triple 9 uptimes" for a while.

It's possible that some might consider the "pretty GUI" stuff that MSFT tends to attach to things to be somehow "better" than the somewhat less pretty UI's that Oracle provides; that wasn't mentioned, and represents ideology rather than any provable reality.

The claims in the post seem rather to be asking the question:

"If you've already been locking yourself into MS products, why bother with the pain of migrating away?"
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