Linux and Open Source... What is still missing?

[Jan Claeys]

Op woensdag 25-10-2006 om 15:22 uur [tijdzone -0300], schreef Derek
Broughton:
> It (Access - no idea about SQL Server) is certainly more ANSI
> compliant than Oracle was 5-6 years ago.  Oracle's improved, but I
> still find when a query written for Oracle doesn't work in Access,
> it's because the oracle query is not ANSI SQL. 

>From what I hear[*] (never used it) Oracle must have about the worst
ANSI SQL compliance in the industry, so that's not a reference...  ;-)

(AFAIK PostgreSQL is pretty good at ANSI SQL compliance though, so that
might be a better reference.)


[*] I followed several discussions about DB-independent layers, and it
seems like it's always Oracle that causes most problems.

-- 
Jan Claeys