On Thu, February 5, 2009 9:17 am, Jared Earle wrote: > On 5 Feb 2009, at 17:03, Roger Howard wrote: >> WTF is up with SQL Server? I'm sure there are valid reasons - beyond >> me - >> why a shop would like it... clearly it's well integrated with >> Microsoft >> tools. But as someone who just needs to manipulate data and build >> reports, >> I fucking hate it. HATE it. > > > MS SQL Server is, I hate to say it, one of their very few good > products. It's robust and straight-forward and has a lot of compelling > advantages over MySQL. Ok, SQL2000 sucked horse's cock, but 2005 is > actually a decent product.
To be sure - it's fast, it's stable, and it's doing it's job just fine. It's by far *not* the biggest issue with this application. It's just that I'm finding it unfriendly for the kind of quick-and-dirty work I'm doing - the stack of tools is too deep to be easily approached (I'd love a simple command line client, for instance), but more annoying are the little things missing in its SQL implementation that I've grown used to. I definitely don't compare it to MySQL in terms of robustness, scalability, etc - those aren't my bag afterall. And it seems enormously deep in terms of support across lots of interesting Microsoft tools. I'd love to spend more time with PowerShell, for instance. But for the drive-by SQL hacking I'm doing, it's a bit awkard. Maybe I'm just looking for a better SQL Server client than Mgmt Studio. _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
