On Friday 21 June 2002 01:08 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a client who has a Windows app that runs ODBC connections to a > file server. The software company wants the client to set up a MS SQL > server to supposedly fix the problems we are having. I'm a little familiar > with MySQL, but is it a direct drop-in replacement for MS' product? I need > connectivity to Win2k workstations. Ideas? > > Bob
IMO, PostgreSQL is a better, more powerful RDBMS, that includes transaction tracking, commit and rollback, inheritance, etc.... It includes a lot of features that MySQL only has useless stubs for. The stubs only maintain 'compatibility' with ANSI standards by not blowing up if a script tries to use them. You won't find a 'drop-in' replacement for MS SQL (it's propriatary, including formats), but IF you can export our of your old system to a tab delimited or CVS file, then you can import into PostgreSQL. -- JLK
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