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March 31, 2009 at 10:26 pm

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Kurt W. Zimmerman SSCrazy Eights Points: 8676 More actions · Answer 1

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April 1, 2009 at 7:10 am

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Just imagine SQL Server running on UNIX wow!

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Roger L Reid SSCommitted Points: 1984 More actions · Answer 2

I'll be a grouch on this: 'taint funny, McGee! (or McGehee...)

MS SQL Server, which was once not much more than a bad joke, is today one of the great database servers of the world.

But it is the ONLY one of the majors (DB2, Oracle, Sybase) that can run on only one operating system. Worse, it tends to assume the client is also a Windows server or desktop.

I knew it was an April Fool gag, but chose to take the point hit with the answer (not very competitive, am I?) Because it just isn't funny, not now that SQL Server really can run with the rest of the pack. As long as its Windows.

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Vijaya Kadiyala SSCrazy Eights Points: 9119 More actions · Answer 3

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April 1, 2009 at 9:14 am

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Hey Steve, it snice question..

if SQL Server runs on Unix ..Wow..

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mojo-168709 SSCommitted Points: 1825 More actions · Answer 4

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April 1, 2009 at 11:01 am

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I'm glad SQL Server only runs on Windows platform. Some bozo in our company insisted we install DB2 on Windows, even though we have tons of iSeries servers. Talking about nightmare...:crazy:

Jan Van der Eecken SSCrazy Eights Points: 9013 More actions · Answer 5

Then again, why not? Windows NT was built with a Hardware Abstraction Layer underneath it, so all you need is a HAL that runs on Solaris machines or whatever plus a version of NT for that hardware, and no code changes would be necessary in SQL? Or am I simplifying things here?

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