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Re:Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service by Godel_unicode on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @03:18PM (#13646735)
Not sure if this is what you intended, but you are aware that SQL server was developed in partnership with Sybase until the mid-90s (when they were substantially the same product) right?
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Re:Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service by aaronblohowiak on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @04:22PM (#13647322)
Neat history! I was not aware of that! I meant to imply that sybase's rdbms offering is no longer a big player and I would not want to bet the future of my career on being an expert in it.
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