Re: SQL server Vs Oracle

Abbot Cooper wrote:
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> David wrote in message ...
> >Donning Asbestos Flame Suite:
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> <SNIP>
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> >"Microsoft Tools are a developers dream and a sysadmin's worst nightmare."
> >
>
> Of course we all know the reason for this is that MS software makes the
> former more efficient and the latter mostly irrelevant. I am not saying that
> MS is perfect, but if you were a sysadmin would you be wild about a tool
> which would basically put you out of a job? Of course that is natural and a
> human reaction... but where are all of the people who made a living from
> horses and buggies who adamantly opposed the motor car? Eventually they had
> to face the new reality.

Then why would companies need to hire someone to babysit their Exchange server? Those tools are a sysadmin's nightmare because they tend to be buggy and unreliable. A programmer can just write an app and then dump it on the sysadmin letting him worry about the bugs within the technology that app is based on.

Jim
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    Jim McCusker | Class of '99, BA Computer Science & Cognitive Science      jc012e@uhura.cc.rochester.edu | http://cif.rochester.edu/~fprefect   ~Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.~

                                                          ~~Henry