> > Most of the web world runs on MySQL and does ok - just like CDBaby who > You can't possibly liken Sybase to MySQL!
I know that they are not even in the same league technically, but they do show disturbingly similar philosophies - like making NULL = NULL by default because many clients with poorly trained developers asked for it. > > with Sybase because you end up needing more lines of code. That is a > > purely gut feel however. > I don't see why, what do you think Oracle offers that Sybase doesn't and > gives it an advantage? 99% of applications I see are nothing more than > straight SQL jobs. And even when stored procs are involved, I find T-SQL a > much nicer and language than PL/SQL and uses less code to achieve the same > thing. I was really commenting on the sql rather than stored procs. Simple things like trying to format a date (that's not one of the fixed and oddly numbered formats) can be quite trying in Sybase. I do find the T-SQL syntax quite cumbersome too, but I suspect that is more personal preference than anything else. > "Enterprise" features like replication is one of the things that lets > [Postgres] > down. While miles ahead of "the other free database", backup isn't great > either. The version 8 option of "stop checkpoints, copy data files" and > the automatic archiving of log files is nice, but they need to go one more > step to the equivalent of Sybase's "dump database" and "dump tran" > commands. Agreed. Backup has always been weak although it's a lot better than it was. Same with replication although I am very interested to try out Slony and also the replication solution from commandprompt.com. -- 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.
