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From: nico@Unify.Com (Nico Nierenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: how bad is oracle?
Message-ID: <7ykwbw@Unify.Com>
Date: 8 Feb 91 17:00:25 GMT
References: <10737@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1991Feb3.182558.14411@oracle.com> <1991Feb6.181906.17145@cimage.com>
Organization: Unify Corporation, Sacramento, CA, USA
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In article <1991Feb6.181906.17145@cimage.com> dbc@dgsi.UUCP (David Caswell) writes:
>.In article <1991Feb3.182558.14411@oracle.com> jklein@oracle.UUCP (Jonathan Klein) writes:
>.>In article <10737@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> mao@eden.Berkeley.EDU (Mike Olson) writes:
>.>>here's the question:  i have heard that oracle does not have a query
>.>>optimizer.  i find this surprising.  is it true?
>.>>
>.>
>.>All versions of oracle that I have worked with have had an query optimizer.
>.>
>.>Jonathan Klein
>.>Oracle Corporation
>.
>
>How bad is Oracle -- Not nearly as bad as Unify.

Gee, what a thought provoking comment.  Thank you for this insight which
clearly is based on a tremendous amount of analysis :-(

(Actually this whole thread is moronic.  It was started by a cheap shot
comment by someone working on the postgres project directed at Oracle).
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