First off, some one PLEASE trash that TPC-C stuff. I never believe any of that
from any vendor since it's so easy to make your case very impressive, and that
includes Oracle.
As far as SQL, Sybase I see is not as ANSI compliant as Oracle with the SQL-92
standard, check out their literature. Oh, BTW varchar2's were 2000 characters
some time ago in Oracle where as Sybase waited till 12.0. OH, I still do not
see a 'drop column' command in Sybase, but 9i does. I think most of the worry
about having the CPU convert data was more wrapped around duhveleper and stupid
user tricks than anything else. Ever see a column that's a varchar2 with only
numbers therein and a user hand Oracle 'where <column_name> = 995;'? That
actually translates into 'where to_number(<column_name>) = 995;'. Oh Boy does
that cause the CPU some work!!
And last from the 'main Oracle bigot' of the list, If Sybase is such a great
dbms, why did PeopleSoft drop it? Of the three main 'not only Oracle' ERP
vendors (SAP, BAAN, and PeopleSoft) not one supports Sybase.
Dick Goulet
PS: Mladen, Please pull up your collar, your 'Red Neck' is showing! :-)
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