Microsoft is dreaming of the reverse, in an article "Migrating Oracle
Databases to Microsoft SQL Server 7.0" at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/techart/oracle2sql.htm
It's a good write-up of the differences.
-David
On Wed, 03 Jan 2001 08:18:27 -0500 "Mike Amburn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
> after moving to oracle several months, we continue to discover new
> "tricks" that are dragging down our development efforts.
>
> for example, SQL7 will order a column with NULL values at the top,
> while
> Oracle will order them at the bottom.
>
> sorted by MSSQL7: NULL, NULL, NULL, 1, 2, 3
> sorted by Oracle: 1, 2, 3, NULL, NULL, NULL
>
> case sensitivity also throws off ordering, oracle will order all
> uppercase before ordering lowercase:
>
> sorted by MSSQL7: jones, Smith, thomas, White
> sorted by Oracle: Smith, White, jones, thomas
>
> can anyone point me to a resource (webpage, book, etc) or take a few
> minutes to list any little trick that you found or know? it seems
> like
> there would be some resource out there specifically targeted for
> MSSQL-to-Oracle migrations, but i haven't been able to find any and
> it's
> the little things that kill your application! any help would be
> greatly
> appreciated!
>
> ----------------------
> Mike Amburn, Development
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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