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Bruce W Cassidy (2/12/2009)
jgrubb (2/12/2009)
February 13, 2009 at 7:00 am
Please stop. The differences are legion. The page in question was written from an Oracle perception of SQL 2k8, and not an informed one. Usually, ...
February 12, 2009 at 3:10 pm
gints.plivna (2/12/2009)
jgrubb (2/12/2009)
Wow. That page is wildly wrong in many cases. It's written by an Oracle User group, and really doesn't know all SQL Servers capabilities, ...
February 12, 2009 at 9:38 am
Sam Peascod (2/11/2009)
Brilliant, thanks Gints! That's exactly what I'm after!Sam
Wow. That page is wildly wrong in many cases. It's written by an Oracle User group, and...
February 12, 2009 at 7:42 am
PaulB (2/9/2009)
jgrubb (2/9/2009)
... but aggregates and functions are different.
Not to mention Triggers, Cursors, Partitioning and stuff that does not exist in the SQL Server world like bitmap indexes, star-transformation,...
February 9, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Download a copy of Oracle and play with it. It is relatively easy (not exactly simple, but doable) to get running and connect to. The basic ansi...
February 9, 2009 at 10:30 am
Ugh. Unless the person is a domain expert AND trained on the underlying application schema, they are risking getting wrong/incomplete/misleading data, and making incorrect assumptions. Many...
February 6, 2009 at 8:31 am
Did you try creating a Linked Server?
February 5, 2009 at 8:53 am
I spent 3 years as Tech Support for an ODBC driver company (Openlinksw). A bunch of their business was replacing the merant/data direct drivers. Openlink had tools that...
January 30, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Also, once again, be sure this is an SQL92 format table you are going after. Progress can have a different type (SQL89) which is being phased out...
January 30, 2009 at 6:47 am
I'm a little rusty on progress. Couldn't remember the system user name. It's a quirky DB, and you can get bit by a bunch of things. ...
January 30, 2009 at 6:36 am
Lynn Pettis (1/29/2009)
Jeff Moden (1/29/2009)
jgrubb (1/29/2009)
Completely Off-Topic, I wanted to see who started the Pork Chop thing,Heh... do you really have to wonder? 😛
Cardinal Moden himself, master...
January 30, 2009 at 6:31 am
Be sure the tables are SQL92 tables. If they are SQL89 tables, you won't be able to use the SQL92 drivers, and Merant no longer makes those....
January 29, 2009 at 1:58 pm
Jeff Moden (1/28/2009)
John Dempsey (1/28/2009)
Jeff Moden (1/28/2009)
January 29, 2009 at 7:29 am
It can be great for batchloading data. Remember that for data it may act like an sql db, it isn't. No xactions, isolation or concurrency.
January 23, 2009 at 10:03 am
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