Re: Informix vs. Sybase vs. Oracle vs. (gasp) MS SQL Server

On Fri, 05 Dec 1997 18:49:09 +1000, Anthony Mandic <no_sp.am@agd.nsw.gov.au> wrote: :Gary L. Burnore wrote: : :> You didn't answer the question Anthony. How can you tell exactly how a :> program operates on a database without reading the source? :> :> EXACTLY - OPERATES ON DATABASE - ANSWER : : I was saving this response for someone but never mind, you'll do. : : So you honestly want me to believe that you're unfamiliar with : the practice and methodology of reverse engineering? Where you : aren't allowed (or cannot possibly, because it isn't publically : available) to just look at source code and duplicate a product : to the same specification. So, then, what were Compaq really doing : when they claimed to have reverse engineered IBM's ROM BIOS : all those years ago? You should be away that if they were making : exact duplicates IBM wouldn't have wasted any time unleashing : their lawyers. The same would apply to Cyrix and AMD reverse : engineering INTEL's CPUs. Cyrix and AMD wouldn't have had : access to INTEL's production masks, so how did they do it? Well they didn't do it by watching a clerk type on the keyboard a few times or asking the clerk on the phone. : : Now to answer your specific question - haven't you heard of : products like SQL Sniffer that you can use to monitor a : program's interaction with a database server. So he ran SQL Sniffer over the phone line while on the phone with the reservationist at the Airline. I see. : :> To answer your question, irrelevant as it is, yes, I do. I've got a Platnum :> Premier card from United to prove some of my travels and 22K miles on my :> year-old motorcycle to prove some of my travels. What does that have to do :> with databases? Wait, don't answer that. I already asked you a toughie. :> You'll need to put all of your energy into answering that one. : : I don't have to. You misinterpreted what I said. But you see I couldn't have misinterpreted what you said. Not based on your statements. You see you asked if I get around. I answered you. If you aks questions like that and can tell the entire layout and operation of a database by the answers you receive, I can as easily comprehend that "get around" means moving from place to place. gburnore@netcom dot com or gburnore@netcom databasix com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- How you look depends on where you go. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary L. Burnore | '۳'''''''ۺ''''''''''۳ | '۳'''''''ۺ''''''''''۳ DOH! | '۳'''''''ۺ''''''''''۳ | '۳ 3 4 1 4 2 '' 6 9 0 6 9 '۳ spamgard(tm): zamboni | Official Proof of Purchase =========================================================================== PGPprint: C63B CF4E 1B71 4D7E C6F8 AF4E 338D 5CB4 KeyID: 0x0F7EDBD9 (RSA) finger gburnore@netcom.com for public key ---------------------------------------------------------------------------