From: | "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net> |
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To: | "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, "Robert Treat" <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: backhanded compliment from Larry Ellison |
Date: | 2002-11-21 09:33:28 |
Message-ID: | 81124B76C0CF364EBAC6CD213ABEDEF7289868@ARGON.edu.sollentuna.se |
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> There are still some respects where we trail MS SQL Server:
> 1) slower performance on massive data updates
> 2) point-in-time recovery
> 3) in-database replication tools
> 4) GUI DBA tools (i.e. tools to manage configuration params,
> backup, process management)
> 5) automated version upgrade/patching
I'd like to add one more line to that list, which is definitly holding
us back from using it in a few situations:
6) Integrated Windows login.
Meaning once you're on the domain, you have your permissions in the
database server. I know we're all supposed to use web based applications
and do our security there and just log in with a fixed account in the
database, but in reality a huge amount of applications are still just
client<->RDBMS. And not requiring every user to remember *yet another*
password is a huge selling point for MS SQL.
Might work with Kerberos in some way - haven't tried that since we're
still on NT4 on the clients. NTLM is the one that works across different
windows versions...
//Magnus
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