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New SQL Server Release Slips to 2005

Posted by michael on from the mysql-available-now dept.

Strudelkugel writes "CRN reports SQL Server 'Yukon' will slip to 2005, complicating plans for ISVs and creating opportunities for OSS and other competitors."

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  1. re by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Ha.

    Since Microsoft bought Sybase and renamed it SQLServer, it has slowly been emasculating this db.

    It's fiasco after fiasco when it comes to SQLServer releases... MS, seems to decide out of the blue, to rollback changes which were stupid in the first place, but, which were prevasive or duct tape 'features' on at the 11th hour.

    At least it keeps a legion of monkeys employed mopping up the mess, left in the wake of Ms release to Ms release.

  2. Re:Actualy kind of sad by bucknuggets · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    well, even though 2000 is a decent product - it still has quite a few obvious enhancements needed (exception handling in stored procs for example). The direction they're headed with yukon however, is to push more .net stuff into the database. Yuk. I've always avoided their proprietary ado/vb/etc stuff in sql 2000, and .net is just more of the like. Anyone who takes advantage of any of that stuff is stuck with sql server forever.

  3. Re:Slashdot - MySQL? by bonch · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    You think Slashdot is some sort of example of efficiency and speed?

    My god, thinking about Slashcode alone makes my eyes bleed. I don't even want to think about their InnoDB setup.

    I remember some guy posted about how switching to CSS would save around 20-40% or so of bandwidth. Taco's response? "Submit a patch if you want." So we're stuck with HTML 3.2 because Taco is a lazy ass who doesn't want to fix it himself.