The "I hate Oracle" club

I thought I might have to create this club myself.

Glad to see other people are all over this.

http://thedailywtf.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=25910

In the land of the geek, the nerd is king

But I'm not sure I should be proud of this score...

PostgreSQL hits 8.0

As seen on Slashdot! PostgreSQL hits 8.0.

Official site here:
http://www.postgresql.org

Here is what is new:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/whatsnew

ADO.NET native driver:

http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/npgsql/projdisplay.php

Delphi Driver:

http://www.zeoslib.net


Really, I have to get some time to really look into this thing sometime. In the world of Open Source databases, this one has a VERY good reputation (it has had features that MySQL is just getting for years now).

New Oracle stuff for .NET

http://www.bsdg.org/2005/01/oracles-net-developer-center.shtml

Check it out.

SQL Server 2005 Enhancements

Nice big document on MSDN that lists a lot of the changes that have happened to SQL Server 2005.

See it at http://msdn.microsoft.com/sql/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnsql90/html/sql_05TSQLEnhance.asp

Also, I'm still working on a post going over some of what we learned from Rich Hundhausen last Thursday. I'm hoping to have that one done tonight. (some, but not all. I have to leave some incentive to go see the presentation -- very good)

Mosha has a blog!!!

Mosha Pasumansky finally has a blog! Mosha is a lead engineer on the Microsoft Analysis Team, and (as I understanding) one of the lead architects of MDX and the Analysis Services security implementation.

http://sqljunkies.com/WebLog/mosha/

He also has a book: Fast track to MDX