I always find it interesting that I seem to be in the position of supporting the underdog when it comes to computing, I own Apple’s and work with Sybase. Two systems that can’t manage a marketing strategy to move them into the main stream. Both manage to be on the opposite end of competition with [...]
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Working for the Underdog
Posted in IT Issues, Oracle DBMS, Personal, RDBMS, Sybase on September 2, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Oracle Market share
Posted in Oracle DBMS, RDBMS, Sybase on August 27, 2006 | 2 Comments »
One more point in the Sybase vs Oracle debate is the size of the Oracle installed base. The claim has been made that the reason Oracle is the number one RDBMS, is that the database has been selected for it’s features, reliability and maturity.
Once again this is a false premise as the real reason [...]
Row level Locking
Posted in Oracle DBMS, RDBMS, SQL, Sybase on August 27, 2006 | 3 Comments »
In the Sybase vs Oracle discussion there is always one issue that Oracle used to win. Row level locking. In the early days of Sybase, page level locking was the lowest level of granularity that locks attained. Much of this was due to a conscious choice of increasing the performance of the transaction, rather than [...]
Sybase vs Oracle
Posted in IT Issues, Oracle DBMS, Personal, SQL, Solaris, Sybase on August 23, 2006 | 6 Comments »
I’ve seen some discussion around the internet about the age old argument about which is best Sybase or Oracle. I have been reading Mr. Talebzedah article on Sybase vs. Oracle: 10 reasons to use Sybase on Linux and I would agree with many of his statements. Having installed and used both over the years, [...]
