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Re:Warren Buffett sells his Oracle shares, retains $44B inve... by protomyth on Saturday March 02, 2019 @08:44PM (#19292226)
SQL Server is a fork of Sybase’s code, so the child product became much more popular than the parent.
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Re:Warren Buffett sells his Oracle shares, retains $44B inve... by simtel20 on Saturday March 02, 2019 @10:49PM (#19292596)
My understanding is that it's a complete rewrite, perhaps more than once at this point.
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Re:Warren Buffett sells his Oracle shares, retains $44B inve... by protomyth on Saturday March 02, 2019 @11:35PM (#19292749)
Probably, but it started as a fork. Last I looked a T-SQL programmer can adapt pretty quickly still.
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