For a novice who has to support this? 100% MS SQL. The community and availability of support is orders of magnitude larger than postgres.
You will also be able to find another novice administrator to support it after this one levels up and/or moves on. Out of the box, MS SQL is simpler to install and configure than Oracle. On 2013-03-21 2:04 PM, "Harvey Rothenberg" <[email protected]> wrote: > Question for all you Sys Admins and Budding DBAs, > > Between Microsoft's SQL Server and PostGres (no matter the version) which > would be easier to install and maintain, in general ? Could you equate SQL > Server to Oracle in their flexiblity/complexity or is PostGres more > challenging ? > > I am looking from the piont-of-view of a computer novice who has to select > one of these DB Engines that is supported by a needed application program > install. > > I seek this information in-order to help a friend because I already have > several years experience in selecting and supporting programs. But to help > this friend, I seek others advise, so that I am helping from a more current > view point and one that is not necessarily mine. I know that I will > probably learn a bit from this inquiry. > > Your experience and advise will be appreciated. > > Sincerely, > Harvey Rothenberg > > "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the > lesson afterwards." -- Unknown > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > >
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