euan.garden@gmail.com wrote:

> You know Danel if you ever want to have a meaningful conversation
> about this stuff then you need to stop thinking in Oracle technology
> terms and start thinking in customer solution terms, that way we can
> actually compare Oracle to SQL Server, DB2, MySQL etc.

Wonderful idea. Lets talk about Oracle and not use Oracle terms and
talk about SQL Server and not talk about Microsoft terms.

I suggest we use the following common terms to begin the discussion.

1. Database
2. Instance
3. Log File
4. NULL
5. Temp Table
6. Transaction
7. Locking
8. Cluster

You go first.
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Daniel A. Morgan
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