Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email

Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email by sharadov on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @03:54PM (#47592574)

SQL Server was pretty good until they went the Oracle way with their licensing shenanigans, but even with that they were a lot cheaper than Oracle. In fact SQL server was one of the few great products that came out of MS.

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Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email by pimeys on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @04:32PM (#47593085)

Having written a rust client for it, even their documentation is absolutely stellar. You just read how the protocol works from the PDF and implement it.

Can't say the same about Oracle.

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Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email by dcrazy on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @09:00PM (#47595498)

SQL Server started as a source fork of Sybase.

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Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email by pjmlp on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @01:57AM (#47597328)

Having done both, with much better tooling. Sybase never had anything comparable to SSMS.

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Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email by dcrazy on Thursday April 02, 2026 @10:29PM (#47622618)

I remember MMC snap-ins.

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Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email by KellyCriterion on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @06:28AM (#47599055)

For the risk of getting downvoted:

MS SQL is today stil a very good product, using it now for more than 20 years in different applications.

And: The free version with max up to 50 GB (?) of DB size is a very good option for smaller environments/apps

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Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email by augusto-moura on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @10:18AM (#47601288)

50GB sounds like nothing, but I believe you in the quality. Most big bucks paid databases need to be high quality though, otherwise they would fail as products

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Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email by sharadov on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @11:41AM (#47602392)

I was a SQL server DBA early in my career, I've not used it in the last decade, glad to hear that it's still a great product.

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Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email by partyficial on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @01:22PM (#47603794)

My first job was a SQL DBA. 15 years and 5 companies later, this startup I'm at (which got acquired recently), still uses SQL Server. It has stood the test of time.

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Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email by KellyCriterion on Thursday April 02, 2026 @05:43AM (#47612134)

Actually one of the very few really good MS products at all?

Visual Studio is also great and widely adopted.

But what else do they have? I had some good experiences with Exchange years ago, but this is just my personal experience, since most people seem to hate it.

What else do they have that is considered a good/solid product that you would recommend to someone?

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