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SQL Server 2017: What's new, what's missing on Linux, and what's next?

naive

Good news when your name is not Larry Ellison

It is really good news that MS seems to be serious in bringing SQL Server to Linux. I worked with Oracle 5.1 on a Sperry U5000/30 in 1989, and today with Oracle 11 on Linux.

Except from some standard views, it did not change much, including lacking command line editing features in sqlplus, which MySql offers by default. New is the support by support engineers from India, which do their best, even when trying to speak understandable English through an over allocated ip-phone connection is a challenge. The NATO alphabet is a great assistant for solving technical Oracle issues.

But hey, what can one expect for $ 5,000-$10,000/cpu license.

Competition is good, maybe Oracle will one day start to make its stuff better, and provide better tooling for the sysadmin instead of sqlplus from the early 80's.

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