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Sybase ASA vs MS Access vs MS SQL Server

From: Scott Hodson <shodson_at_home.com>
Date: 1998/08/27
Message-ID: <06hF1.22990$K35.7638938@news.rdc2.occa.home.com>#1/1

I am consulting with a client and we've been using MS SQL Server on his project. I am very comfortable with MS SQL Server and Sybase System XI but he comes from a MS Access background and finds SQL Server very confusing and frustrating (transaction logs, segments, etc.) having become accustomed to Access's ease of use and very GUI-based DB management tools. We moved to SQL server because his data volume and activity will increase 10-fold in the next year and it is more scaleable and reliable than Access.

He head about Sybase ASA and how easy to use it was from some friends but I want to know where does it fall short compared to say System XI or MS SQL Server. It sounds like a MS Access on steroids but I'm not sure.  Is the DB stable, does it corrupt? Is it fast? Scalable?

I was wondering how ASA compares with Access and MS SQL Server. I have a feeling it's somewhere in between the two. It seems easier to use than SQL Server but I'm not sure how scalable it is.

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Received on Thu Aug 27 1998 - 00:00:00 CDT

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