For years now there's been a constant war between Microsoft supporters and Oracle supporters. Oracle has these features, SQL Server has these features, etc. But that's not really where the real ...

OK, while I'm really bad about approving comments (mostly because the platform makes it so painful), I do want to answer a few of them here real quick. First and foremost because this is bothering me.

I'd like to eventually become a full-time database developer, and I'm leaning toward Microsoft rather than Oracle. Right now I am in a database application support position, supporting various ...