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Originally posted by zeitghostI remember dBase II...
Originally posted by threadedMade quite a bit of easy money going around and increasing the number of handles in the DOS system.ini, IIRC.
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Originally posted by zeitghostIt was better when it was still called Vulcan...
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Originally posted by VitoReal men don't have a clue what the heck this thread is talking about!!
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Originally posted by darmstadtReal men run DB2 UDB
Real men don't have a clue what the heck this thread is talking about!!
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Originally posted by threadedI remember dBase as a rip of of Retreive. Made quite a bit of easy money going around and increasing the number of handles in the DOS system.ini, IIRC. It was one of the things that taught me just how fscking useless most of these people who play at programming on PCs really are. Yet took me quite a while to realise the whole of the IT market was going to head that way: people coding stuff up without a clue to what is actually going off under the hood.
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Originally posted by Board Game GeekAnyone remember DataEase? Or Fox Pro with it's Mount Rushmore goodness ?
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I remember dBase as a rip of of Retreive. Made quite a bit of easy money going around and increasing the number of handles in the DOS system.ini, IIRC. It was one of the things that taught me just how fscking useless most of these people who play at programming on PCs really are. Yet took me quite a while to realise the whole of the IT market was going to head that way: people coding stuff up without a clue to what is actually going off under the hood.
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Anyone remember DataEase? Or Fox Pro with it's Mount Rushmore goodness ?
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My experience is limited, but I've never seen a perl scripter actually finish a project. They just kind of continue to exist in a state of fluctuting perl-scriptiness. Maybe that's why they just want permanent perl people.
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You should go for PICK the multi-valued database that beat them all.
Well maybe 20 years ago.
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DB2 is sh1t too - IBM support is pretty much useless and you can't really do much yourself as otherwise you might invalidate their support contract: a con designed to rip you off of course.
What really FKING pissed me off about DB2 is that stored procedures support was sh1t comparing to Sybase/MS SQL: of all the databases T-SQL is really the best, and Sybase is really gold standard of databases, pity they are going down now - just proves that being the best does not always mean being successful
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I run Postgres for about 2 years and was deeply disappointed - it is a pile of sh1t that is extremely slow, and worst of all it requires fking vacuum to run regularly otherwise database slows down to crawl - I am not too fussy about speed, but Postgres turned out to be a crock and I used very small database with very few updates, it was practically read only, yet Postgres was getting slower and slower: ffs, it was better to reload database from scratch than to vacuum it.
As soon as I swiched to MS SQL server all problems went way - no wonder it is based on good Sybase code, banks in the city used it a lot, not sure if they still do, but they did and there was good reason for that.
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Originally posted by AtWPostgres is the biggest crock out there - replaced it with MS SQL server and never looked back.
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