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From: cole@farmhand.rtp.dg.com (Bill Cole)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: <None>
Message-ID: <1991May1.195133.15435@dg-rtp.dg.com>
Date: 1 May 91 19:51:33 GMT
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Sender: cole@farmhand (Bill Cole)
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Sarah Eckhouse writes: 
|> We are interested in doing a study comparing the features, 
|> capabilities, useability, ease of leaning, etc.  of four
|> database systems:
|> 
|> 	Oracle	Ingress	Sybase	Informix	
|> 
|> Does anyone know of anyone having a similar or related study
|> 	already done, perhaps for different databases?

There are two answers to this:

1. Any study will tend to show what the 'studiers' want it to
show.  It's almost impossible to find somebody without an axe that
needs to be ground.

2. You can't compare the products against one another unless you've
previously described as the problem to be solved and the parameters
around which the solution may be implemented.


Suggestion:
List what's important to the solution and then go look for products
that fit -- or can be made to fit -- your list of important points.

/Bill
You're nothing without referential constraints.