On 31/01/2004 17:08 Richard Welty wrote:
MS SQL Server-> <some Open Source DB> is likely to be
every bit as challenging, so it's pretty silly to propose it in
this case.
If you search the PostgreSQL archives you'll find a good number of
successful migrations from MS SQL. The major work generally seems to be in
re-writing stored procedures. Not a drop-in replacement solution, I agree
but consider this: what if a company wants to migrate their desktops to
Linux but can't get the required connectivity to MS-SQL? Should they
meekly accept that they're locked into M$ for ever? Or should they
investigate ways of replacing MS-SQL (maybe even with another proprietry,
but multi-platform, DB)? Which would you advise?
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