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Re:Problems with Oracle SQL by zabzonk on Friday September 10, 2021 @01:26PM (#28484646)
> so the choice was Oracle or DB2

Sybase, Ingres

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Re:Problems with Oracle SQL by tracker1 on Friday September 10, 2021 @02:52PM (#28485650)
Worth noting, that Microsoft SQL Server started life as a Sybase fork.
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Re:Problems with Oracle SQL by johnthescott on Saturday September 11, 2021 @05:24PM (#28496187)
not so sure that is correct. ms sql WAS sybase from 1989 until the fork in 1993 and i have been told that substantial changes to the codebase did not occur until years after the 1993, during the jim gray tenure.
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Re:Problems with Oracle SQL by briffle on Friday September 10, 2021 @03:59PM (#28486260)
Our Vendor offered Sybase in the mid 200x's as a choice for our college middleware, but they used 'case-insensitive' sort, which the linux version of Sybase did not work with.
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Re:Problems with Oracle SQL by icedchai on Friday September 10, 2021 @02:14PM (#28485213)
Don't forget about Informix. Early 2000's had several commercial databases.

I worked at both a Sybase shop and an Oracle shop. I far preferred Sybase.

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Re:Problems with Oracle SQL by myohmy on Friday September 10, 2021 @01:31PM (#28484737)
Potato Patahto
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