I also feel that MSSQL folks aren't going to come here to ask questions.
They have enough forums and as was already mentioned, they use #sqlhelp
hashtag for initial assistance. We are very much people of habit and
although I would see a benefit to add more PostgreSQL to Oracle-l, I just
don't see MSSQL being implemented here successfully.
Sorry, honey!
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On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 9:57 AM, Niall Litchfield <
niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 2:56 PM, Tim Gorman <tim.evdbt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
rSo, of course, I ask *Oracle* people about it. :)
There is a vibrant technical community in SQL Server and it is long pastI agree with all of the above. I disagree with the suggestion though.
time that these communities cross-pollinated better.
As this thread shows, it isn't that one or the other DBMS is better, but
they can be different in subtle ways which can trip up even the most
experienced of us.
And, as this thread shows, many of us are tasked with administering both
DBMS packages, in addition to PostgreSQL and MySQL.
Firstly ORACLE-L has, currently, a high signal-noise ratio. A *very* high
signal-noise ratio. I strongly suspect the widening of scope to other RDBMS
systems (I assume that is what Tim intended rather than DBMS) would reduce
this. Where there is more than 1 way of doing things, techies tend to be
especially protective of the way *they* do it. The introduction of
subtly(and not so subtly) different engines would *inevitably* introduce
the mines better than yours type of discussion.
Secondly, email discussion lists are not really where *most* of the
current generation look for valuable information. vendor forums, stack
overflow, twitter and youtube fill that role. I *love* ORACLE-L but I'm not
kidding myself that it's where hearts and minds are won. The general forums
such as stack are pretty much where its at. They also naturally lend
themselves to "in Oracle I'd do X - how do I achieve that in MongoDB" type
discussions.
So I'd worry that we'd reduce quality and not add effectively to the
audience. Better to engage where people actually are!
