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Re:Announcing SQL Server on Linux by frik on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @12:32AM (#11243715)
The syntax of MSSQL is very behind the competition and still based on Sybase. Even basic string functions aren't available or have weird arguments.

If you aren't locked into their eco-system stay clear away from it. Otherwise you will regret it, as the licensing costs are very expensive and per CPU core (think Oracle). Better switch to MySQL or Postgres or Lucene, etc.

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Re:Announcing SQL Server on Linux by pjmlp on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @01:16AM (#11243802)
There is more to a SQL server than the language.

For example, OLAP, distributed transactions, cluster scalability and so on.

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Re:Announcing SQL Server on Linux by frik on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @01:51PM (#11247506)
You get the same features from other databases.
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Re:Announcing SQL Server on Linux by pjmlp on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @04:34PM (#11248881)
If we are speaking about Oracle, Informix, DB2, Sybase, yes I do agree.
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Re:Announcing SQL Server on Linux by frik on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @12:50AM (#11251186)
yes, but there are others too. And MySQL and Postgres support some of those functionality as well.
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