On 2006.04.04, Bas Scheffers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All Systems have their merrits. As (commercial) enterprise database go, I > have _much_ better experiences with Sybase than Oracle for ease of > maintainance (best backups in the business), optimization (it just uses > indexes that make sense without needing hints, no matter how complex I > make the query), performance and realiability (don't get me started). Your > mileage may vary...
I just have to ask: what version of Sybase and Oracle are you comparing? Oracle 7 to Sybase ASE 11? Since Oracle 8.0 and 8i, in my experience, Oracle has always been better, more reliable, etc. than Sybase ASE 10 and 11. Oracle 10g today ... there's no comparison -- Sybase is closer to MySQL/PostgreSQL than it is to Oracle, in terms of capability and stability. Of course, I find that it always ends up being a people problem: if you have DBAs that don't know what they're doing or don't do their jobs properly, you can end up with an Oracle instance that's broken and a Sybase setup that works ... which leaves developers to learn that "Sybase is better than Oracle" ... The lesson here: Regardless of software, if your people can't make it work, it won't satisfy you. But, I still assert that, given equally competent people, modern Oracle is better than modern Sybase. Hands down. -- Dossy -- Dossy Shiobara | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://dossy.org/ Panoptic Computer Network | http://panoptic.com/ "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70) -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
