Re: DBAs:Databases 1:10 (Oracle) 1:31 (SQL Server)
- From: Grant Allen <gxallen@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Oracle-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 23:33:02 +1000
Gene Sais wrote:
What Oracle calls a database is different from what SQLserver calls a
database. SQLserver databases are equivalent to Oracle schema's.
Bzzzzt! Wrong (and not just you Gene - sorry to single you out). This
has not been the case for nearly a decade! It makes me laugh every time
someone states this, especially as I have no love for the M$ product.
SQL Server has *exactly* the same schema support as Oracle *as well as*
support for multiple databases hosted by a given instance. A more
accurate way of thinking of databases in SQL Server is as another
namespace level above schemas.
To keep this vaguely on topic, I wonder if the "number of databases"
count for SQL Server is artificially boosted by the fact that for every
instance a DBA manages, they can claim to be managing 5 or 6 databases
for nothing - master, msdb, tempdb, pubs/northwind/adventureworks.
Ciao
Fuzzy
:-)
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