[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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