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by Tim DiChiara, Senior Site Editor
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The continuing war for DBMS supremacy is not confined to the major vendors in the market. The competition trickles down to individual DBAs, developers, and managers who use the products. Like politics or religion, bringing up the topic of which DBMS is best is sure to end up in a heated argument. There is little middle ground.
Sure enough, our Face-off: Oracle vs. SQL Server article is stirring up the proverbial hornet's nest. My colleague Robyn Lorusso from SearchOracle.com and I took opposing stances and briefly outlined why one product is superior to the other. We then invited your opinions on the matter -- so let's hear it! Go to the end of the article and use the "Sound Off" feature to let the world know your
opinion. (We're looking for civil, informed points of view, so no personal attacks or ranting please!)
Need more information on the latest releases before diving into the fray? As all of you know, for both Oracle and SQL Server 2004 is going to be a major upgrade year and our crack news team has been all over the story. Here are a few samples from us and other publications about user impressions of the early betas:
If you have personally played with either 10g or Yukon, we'd love to hear your initial impressions -- email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED].
Till next week, Tim
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Spotlight on Sybase
by Tim DiChiara, Senior Site Editor
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Sybase administrators and developers will benefit from the collection of technical tips, expert advice, news and market analysis, white papers, and webcasts inside...
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Expert Technical Advice: |
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Featured Expert Mike Lampa, CEO, BAG, Inc.
Categories: Data warehousing and business intelligence
Mike is co-founder and CEO of BAG, a Texas-based business intelligence consultancy. He has over 21 years experience in strategic planning, program management, and designing, building and supporting data warehouse and operational data store implementations. Intricately involved in the daily activities of BAG, Mr. Lampa can often be found building data and process models to aid in improved operations efficiency and decision support automation for clients.
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Read all Mike's answers to previous questions
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This Week: In the forums
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DB2 timestamp and .NET code
Member "LBond" is having problems with some .NET code handling a DB2 timestamp. Has anybody tried this? Give him your two cents in our "DB2 Tech Forum". |
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SQL Server 2000 clusters
Member "charleslc108" is getting a failure when his SQL script executes on a remote client. Will it still work after the failover? Help him out in our "SQL Server Tech Forum." |
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| Tip of the Week: |
Learning guide to SQL
Our crash course in the lingua franca of the database world, the
structured query language, including tips, advice, and scripts from
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Featured white paper: "The Future of Data Integration Technologies"
This week's featured white paper gives you an overview of data integration architectures, EAI and data integration, the future of data integration and more.
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Sponsored By: Sunopsis
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Check out this excerpt from Dwaine Snow and Tom Phan's "Advanced DBA Certification Guide and Reference for DB2 Universal Database v8 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows." This excerpt highlights pertinent information about the creation, management, and monitoring of buffer pools in DB2 UDB Version 8 to provide optimal performance for the database.
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