On Apr 9, 2007, at 9:40 AM, Gerard wrote:
> On Monday April 09, 2007 at 10:19:53 (AM) Erik Jones wrote:
>
>
>> On Apr 9, 2007, at 8:15 AM, Vivek Khera wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 27, 2007, at 4:09 PM, Tony Caduto wrote:
>>>
>>>> Another thing is this, how hard could it possibly be for a MS SQL
>>>> DBA or Oracle DBA to pick up using PostgreSQL?
>>>> I don't think it would take a decent admin of any database to come
>>>> up to speed in a very short time as long as they were interested
>>>> in doing so.
>>>
>>> We've been working with a consultant to re-design/optimize some
>>> existing DB systems we have running, and his background is mostly
>>> Oracle and DB/2. Some of the optimizations -- actually
>>> operationally related choices on how to do things -- are remarkably
>>> off-base for Postgres.
>>
>> Can you give some examples of this? It's not that I don't believe
>> you, I'd just like some concrete examples from someone in your
>> situation.
>
> Erik, would it be possible for you to post in 'plain text' and not
> HTML?
> This is a mail forum, not a web page.
Hmmm... I didn't have anything HTML set anywhere. I did however
have message formatting set to Rich-Text (although I was unaware) and
have switched that to plaintext. This look better?
erik jones <erik@myemma.com>
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