Re: World's No.1 SQL server!! PostgreSQL defeated Oracle, MS SQLserver, DB2, Sybase, Interbase....!!!!

From: Obnoxio The Clown <obnoxio_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 23:04:26 GMT
Message-ID: <8upslm$skg$1@news.xmission.com>

From: "Jonathan Willcock" <Jonathan_at_FESoftware.com>
>
>I think you should be fair here. The pages quoted specifically say that
>they are not allowed to reveal the names of Proprietary 1 and 2 due
>to vendor restrictions, not because they don't want to. They do however
>say Prop 1 version no was 8.1.5 and Prop 2 Version 7.0. Moreover
>Prop 2 only runs on NT.
>
>No prizes for spotting that Prop 2 is MS SQL Server, and 8.1.5 sounds
>very like Oracle.
>
>Of course they could be being "economical with the truth" and I have yet to
>see any database vendor unable to come up with a benchmark that shows
>it top!

Speak to Informix. :-)

>In fact I'm currently trying to test Oracle myself for a German client, and
>have
>hit a brick wall. Does Oracle have an AutoIncrement field (i.e an
>automatically increasing counter)? My German is normally OK but all my
>docs
>are in German and I can't guess what the German should be for this! Can
>anyone help please???

Look for sequences. I know Oracle also have online docs, I don't have the URL handy, but I seem to remember you have to register (free) to get the docs.

HTH.

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