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

Obviously the people involved in this useless thread haven' worked out how to reply to an individual. Not like us more clever people. regards Malcolm At 10:10 05/12/97 -0000, you wrote: }EVERYBODY PLEASE DROP THIS USELESS THREAD. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH }INFORMIX ALTHOUGH IT MAY HAVE DONE ONCE..... } }ANY PERSONAL VENDETTAS SHOULD BE CARRIED ON OFF-LIST. I AM RECIEVING TO }MUCH OF THIS CRAP & NOT ENOUGH TECHNICAL MAILS. } }Regards } }Lee } } }} ---------- }} From: Anthony Mandic[SMTP:no_sp.am@agd.nsw.gov.au] }} Sent: Friday, December 05, 1997 8:49 AM }} To: informix-list@rmy.emory.edu }} Subject: Re: Informix vs. Sybase vs. Oracle vs. (gasp) MS SQL }} Server }} }} 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? }} }} 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. Of course, }} you don't need to get that sophisticated. I'd imagine that }} more than just one server that I know of would allow you }} to record this information as well. You should be able }} to monitor the log data as well and examine changes applied }} to the data. So, why exactly do you seem to think that }} its impossible? }} }} > 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. }} }} -am }} } } } Malcolm Weallans Online Database Consultancy (+44)1628 672154 Fax (+44)1628 637463