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    Hi guys,

    I wonder if anyone of you know some links or sites about Oracle and SQL server comparison articles. Just want to know the pros and cons using both of them.

    Thanks in advance.

    Ric
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    there is one article on Technet, go look there

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    Microsoft:

    Oracle is ****e and SQL Server is the best.

    Oracle:

    SQL Server is ****e and Oracle is the best.

    Tim:

    They do the same thing in slightly different ways. There's not alot to choose between them these days. People tend to slag-off the product they've not used.

    A guy recently listed several reasons why Oracle was rubbish compared to SQL Server. It soon became obvious he'd not used Oracle since early Version 7. Likewise, most people I hear slagging off SQL Server have only used 6.5 which was crap. If they had used SQL Server 2000 they would be a bit red faced while trying to justify the price of their Oracle licenses to their boses.
    Tim...
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    Hi

    There are lot of things to look at..

    a)price
    b)functional requirements
    c)Skill sets
    d)Infrastructure
    e)Futre growth etc

    etc....I recently was asked to advise on such a project and guess what was the best product for them..it was Mysql...
    the customer is quite happy.

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    IS SQLSErver 2000 available on any other platform other than Windows?
    There Nothing You cannot Do, The problem is HOW.

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    Talking

    Hi Sudip

    Nope sql server 2000 is not available on other platforms.

    regards
    Hrishy

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    Sanjay, thanks for the articles you gave me. Marketing is always like that. Both say something contradictive to each other products. But it does give me some ideas.

    Hrishy,

    What do you think about mysql? I found it, at a glance, to be a little db which doesn't have many features in it. I wonder what people think of this product because from many sites I realize that mysql is quite a popular product.

    Ric
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    It is far from being small in terms of it's speed and the size it can scale to. Where it is a bit toy-like is in the list of features it has. Complexity comes with a performance overhead, which mySQL avoids. No foreign keys means no recursive SQL to check for foreign key violations etc.

    If you want something fast and cheap for simple database operations it's hard to beat. So much so that Sun have, or are going to, buy the company and distribute it as their own database. That may harm the Sun-Oracle relationship somewhat!

    Cheers
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