Re: World's No.1 SQL server!! PostgreSQL defeated Oracle, MS SQLserver, DB2, Sybase, Interbase....!!!!

From: "Jonathan Willcock" <Jonathan@FESoftware.com> > >I think you should be fair here. The pages quoted specifically say that >they are not allowed to reveal the names of Proprietary 1 and 2 due >to vendor restrictions, not because they don't want to. They do however >say Prop 1 version no was 8.1.5 and Prop 2 Version 7.0. Moreover >Prop 2 only runs on NT. > >No prizes for spotting that Prop 2 is MS SQL Server, and 8.1.5 sounds >very like Oracle. > >Of course they could be being "economical with the truth" and I have yet to >see any database vendor unable to come up with a benchmark that shows >it top! Speak to Informix. :-) >In fact I'm currently trying to test Oracle myself for a German client, and >have >hit a brick wall. Does Oracle have an AutoIncrement field (i.e an >automatically increasing counter)? My German is normally OK but all my >docs >are in German and I can't guess what the German should be for this! Can >anyone help please??? Look for sequences. I know Oracle also have online docs, I don't have the URL handy, but I seem to remember you have to register (free) to get the docs. HTH. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.