Re: SQL server Vs Oracle

To start, YMMV was implied with my post.

Arvin Meyer wrote:
>
> Jim McCusker wrote in message <37399F02.E07AA7B3_at_iname.com>...
> >
> >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.
>
> Gee, that's funny. At the firm I used to work for, we did have Exchange
> Server 5.5 hang once after about 9 months. We rebooted the server and all
> was OK, and has been OK for the last 6 months. We have 3 MCSE's and the only
> Exchange Server work they ever did is installing it on client's systems.
> Maybe the problems you encountered had to do with the system not being
> correctly set up in the first place, or a conflict with something else
> that's running. Ya think?

I don't know, I didn't work on it. I do know that the two places I've worked (Pratt & Whittney and Xerox) there seemed to always be trouble with the exchange servers. My main point was, however, that the technology that Microsoft puts out tends to be unpredictable, whether it be from bugs or poor design decisions. For instance, try to get a native MS-Access combo-box to not be editable (only being able to select items from the pull-down). It's not gonna happen. But you can do this with VB and VC++. Why? Also, try getting a transparent text box (of any kind) in VB. Again, not gonna happen. But the point of this is that, as bad as it is from a programmer's perspective, it's worse from a sysadmin, because the sysadmin needs to maintain the apps that the programmer writes. If a bug crops up, and it's not in the programmer's code, everyone is pretty much SOL. Microsoft will just say to pray that it'll be fixed in the next release. Oh well.

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