Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!bionet!ames!uhccux!munnari.oz.au!murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au!ditmela!hans From: hans@ditmela.oz (Hans Eriksson) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: RFI: Oracle, Informix & Sybase Message-ID: <7206@ditmela.oz> Date: 26 Sep 89 00:01:55 GMT References: <1460001@hp-ptp.HP.COM> <5527@tank.uchicago.edu> Reply-To: hans@ditmela.oz.au (Hans Eriksson) Organization: CSIRO/DIT, Melbourne, Australia (on leave from SICS, Sweden) Lines: 15 In article <5527@tank.uchicago.edu> monty@delphi.UUCP (Monty Mullig) writes: > > the primary strengths of sybase were: I've learnt that Sybase SQL is not the Standard SQL, at least not the mebedded one. How much it differs I do not know, but it was too much difference for us anyway. I would say that this would be a major consideration also. /hans -- Hans Eriksson (hans@ditmela.oz.au) CSIRO/DIT, 55 Barry Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia (we are GMT+10) Tel: +61 3 347-8644 Fax: +61 3 347-8987 Home: +61 3 534-5188 On a years leave from Swedish Institute of Computer Science (hans@sics.se)