Comments on: Sybase Adaptive Server 12.5.3 SQL (Un)Supported Features http://jamescrisp.org/2008/04/08/sybase-adaptive-server-1253-sql-unsupported-features/ C#, .NET, Ruby, Rails, book reviews, mind hacks, Wing Chun and the occasional personal bit. Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:28:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: JackU http://jamescrisp.org/2008/04/08/sybase-adaptive-server-1253-sql-unsupported-features/#comment-2637 JackU Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:09:50 +0000 http://jamescrisp.org/2008/04/08/sybase-adaptive-server-1253-sql-unsupported-features/#comment-2637 If you want a rock solid RDBMS and awesome developer tools, then you can’t go pass SQL Server! If you want a rock solid RDBMS and awesome developer tools, then you can’t go pass SQL Server!

]]> By: Nick Carroll http://jamescrisp.org/2008/04/08/sybase-adaptive-server-1253-sql-unsupported-features/#comment-2489 Nick Carroll Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:46:39 +0000 http://jamescrisp.org/2008/04/08/sybase-adaptive-server-1253-sql-unsupported-features/#comment-2489 You are feeling my pain now. There is no timestamp data type, has a weird syntax for DELETE, you can't delete too many records from a large table otherwise you run out of space in the transaction log, DECIMAL defaults to a scale of 0 so you immediately lose precision, using CHAR(3) inserts 3 blank characters by default when you might prefer null instead for the field, and the list goes on. Sybase is the most data averse database that I have ever used. If you want a rock solid RDBMS then you can't go pass Oracle or PostgreSQL. You are feeling my pain now. There is no timestamp data type, has a weird syntax for DELETE, you can't delete too many records from a large table otherwise you run out of space in the transaction log, DECIMAL defaults to a scale of 0 so you immediately lose precision, using CHAR(3) inserts 3 blank characters by default when you might prefer null instead for the field, and the list goes on.

Sybase is the most data averse database that I have ever used. If you want a rock solid RDBMS then you can't go pass Oracle or PostgreSQL.

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