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Simon L. Prinsloo
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ChUIMonster By far, test best idea is for MS, Oracle and company to stop making excuses for their inadequacies and fix SQL. They have bad implementations. The onus should be on them to fix it. They've had 30 years. Time to get off their butts. That is true, but in practice the OpenEdge team is blamed EVERY TIME the integration falls over, because these vendors succeeded for 30 years to convince their followers not only that it is OK to have these restrictions, but that it MUST be like that. Although none of the SQL users can tell you WHY is must be like that, they will always tell the powers that be that Progress is "violating the standard" when it saves all the user's data, rather than throwing away some of it. Even sensible managers can Google that and see that the SQL implementations all have this limitation. For some reason, nobody but us ever ask: But why? A futile question, really, because they will tell you: That is the standard. Still, a standard is only useful if it serves a purpose, but if you ask for the purpose the dodge the question or ramble non-sense until everybody is confused. And then everybody conclude that since OpenEdge keeps all their data and other systems do not, OpenEdge is the inferior product.
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