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Re:'We had to educate Oracle about our contract,' CIO says a... by zaphar on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @01:37PM (#39619357)
You can get a Batphone without doing business with Oracle. Microsoft SQL Server will give you a Batphone and would still be better than doing business with Oracle.
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Re:'We had to educate Oracle about our contract,' CIO says a... by seniorThrowaway on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @01:47PM (#39619545)
I don't know if it is still the case but MS SQL was very deficient tech wise against Oracle DB, and never really a contender for a large OLTP DB. To the point that for some applications, it simply would not work due to excessive locking.
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Re:'We had to educate Oracle about our contract,' CIO says a... by zaphar on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @01:52PM (#39619628)
I've used MS SQL recently and it holds up more than fine if you tune it properly. Oracle also needs tuning properly so that's not big deal.
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