Brian Cluff wrote:

> I would agree, porting large database programs from one database to the
> other can be a big pain.  Every database that I have seen has their own
> extenstions to the sql standard.  Oracle probably being the worst offender
> of the bunch.... probably why the oracle customers tend to be so loyal...
> they don't have the choice after a while :)
> 
> If you want to think about something painfull, try playing thinking of what
> it would take to make your software run on 2 or 3 databases.
> 
> Brian
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For me the answer is JDBC So far I've made 4 application that were 
painless to move from Sybase-SQL to Postgre to Oricle. Now true it took 
me awhile to get used to only using JDBC calls but now its a no brainer.

Carl Parrish

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