SSDD

Post #96,052 by ChrisR 4/11/03 12:06:42 PM Reply	SSDD Developers cheered several features promised in 5.0 including: foreign key support; a system that would automatically alert administrators when there's a problem; and the long-awaited stored procedures, which allow a command or series of commands to be prebuilt for later use. Promises are fine and all, but I think it premature to say you're competiting for the Enterprise Database space if you haven't even got these basic things out of the way. Well, at least they finally got subqueries. Personally, I would prefer that they be an MSAccess killer, before they become a Oracle/SQLServer killer. Instead of chest thumping about the industrial strength databases, why not polish off the competition on the low end.
Post #96,054 by drewk 4/11/03 12:14:46 PM Reply	Why that's a good idea Filesystems are commoditized. Microsoft keeps trying to "fix" that by coming up with new ones, but people keep reverse-engineering the protocols. The next big push will be to turn the filesystem into a database. Reverse engineering the filesystem would then be equivalent (for legal purposes) to reverse-engineering SQL Server. If there isn't a commodity -- or at least Free and ubiquitous -- alternative to SQL Server before they ship that, we're in trouble. === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
Post #96,057 by ChrisR 4/11/03 12:30:26 PM Reply	That's fine but that's not the current direction. The current direction is to get some of the features that Oracle & SQLServer have had for years and years. MySQL is not competing in the arena of distributed file systems integrated with the OS and carried out through a DB engine.

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