Hmm, may I add a comment (and I don't claim that my own favorite is any
better or worse)?
Isn't it a good goal to make reading the manual or the newsgroup as
unnecessary as possible? I think the goal is (and vendors including
Oracle and Microsoft and IBM are working on it) to make the DBMS as easy
to operate as childs play.
Be it removing the need for rollback segments, a gui for backup and
recovery or an install that just knows what to do without having to ask
questions.
I am willing to grant MS that they embraced the need for this long
before other vendors because they come from the low end, small
businesses.
The big guys Oracle and IBM better learn the lesson.
Just my 2 cents.
Serge
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Serge Rielau
DB2 UDB SQL Compiler Development
IBM Software Lab, Canada
Received on Thu Oct 25 2001 - 09:02:19 CDT
