[geeks] SQL Performance

[Joshua Boyd]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 05:38:55PM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> 
> >>There's actually nothing wrong with that, aside from the platform on
> >>which it resides.  Microsoft SQL Server is a nice[0] piece of software.
> >
> >Did they fix the flaw where the protocol is undocumented keeping people
> >from writing their own client libraries?
> 
> I'm fairly certain both Oracle and DB2 contain that same misfeature.  So,
> relative to other commercial RDBMSes, SQL Server isn't any worse in that
> regard.

Except that Oracle and DB2 offer client libraries on quite a few more
platforms. 

However, I wasn't aware that Oracle and DB2 did that.  That is
shameful.   What are people using QNX or VxWorks supposed to do?