[geeks] Databases

Mike Dombrowski geeks at sunhelp.org
Fri Aug 24 12:16:39 CDT 2001


>I don't have the widest range of DB experience, but what I do have 
tells
>me that I really love Postgres.  And MS-SQL really offends me.  It
>wouldn't if they didn't try to advertise it so hard.  In my opinion it 
is
>only slightly more sophisticate than MySQL, but they try and say that 
it
>is more powerfull and more flexible than anything, and that just ain't
>true.

Actually, I've heard that MS SQL is pretty nice - people have referred 
to it as MS's best software. It can scale much larger than most of the 
free databases and it quite quick on nice hardware. I played around 
with it for a bit and found it pretty nice also but I didn't do much 
digging.

Mike



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