Re: Upgrading Production line PCs

[Paul Thomas <paul tmsl demon co uk>]

On 31/01/2004 15:01 Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> At 08:24 1/31/2004, you wrote:
>
> > On 31/01/2004 13:00 Jeff Vian wrote:
> > > > You could always dump MSSQL in favour of PostgreSQL.
> > > or MySQL
> >
> > We're talking RDBMS's here not 5th rate FUD-ware.
>
> No flames required, Paul. Kindly grow up:

Boring.....

> whatever you may think of them, a large number of organizations use both 
> PostgreSQL and MySQL for some sizable projects with good results.

And whatever you think of Microsoft, a large number organisations use 
their products with good results. Maybe if you took the time to read 
http://sql-info.de/mysql and considered the consequences in terms of the 
storage of vital business data, you might learn something.

> In our case, we use Oracle since we consider MS SQL to be 5th-rate 
> FUD-ware. So opinions can and will vary.

Compared to Oracle, I'd say your close although I personally have never 
liked Oracles '' == null "feature".

> In any event, the original poster likely does not care about either your 
> opinion and mine, and posts commenting on the perceived quality of /any/ 
> RDBMS are not useful to him. Her? I forgot. Only one person has actually 
> responded with a useful comment that was on-topic.

Which may well indicate a paucity of OSS options (unless client apps are 
Java) which is why I mooted the idea of DB migration

> So, do you know of a way to connect a Linux client to MS SQL or not? 
> Help the guy, dammit.

Google threw this up:

http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/alberto20000919.php3?page=5

Now let's see you help some-one,,,


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