>>>>> "Nic" == Nic Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> This sets off alarm bells along the lines of "MSSQL does this
>> right...All the other (and generally faster, etc..BETTER) RDBMSs
>> can't implement this properly...
Um, there are very few engines faster than MSSQL - Sybase and Oracle,
I'd imagine - and they're both far more expensive. I think it's widely
accepted that MSSQL represents the best performance/price tradeoff of
any database engine.
Nic> I spent years as an mssql server programmer. It's the only half
Nic> way decent product they have.
That's because they didn't write it themselves. ;-)
- Chris, who has been forced to use Perl to play with Sybase and MSSQL
today, and hasn't wanted to kill people. Yet.
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