Re^2: The need to work and re-train

As I recall, MS SQL Server was basically a "fork" of either Sybase 4.9.1 or 4.9.2. I would imagine it is still SQL Server under the hood and still uses Transact SQL as it's procedural language for triggers and such as well as retaining the basic concept of databases/schemas, etc. of Sybase.

Does MS SQL Server have a GUI administration tool? I had thought the main add of MS SQL Server was a GUI tool set and under the hood, it was still much the same.

Since they are looking (presumably) for a programmer not a DBA and assuming your experience with MS SQL Server is programming in Transact SQL, then you might add Transact SQL T/SQL) to your resume and include in a cover letter that you are "..familiar with MS SQL Server Transact SQL which is similar to Sybase Transact SQL..."

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Re^3: The need to work and re-train by terra incognita (Pilgrim) on Sep 28, 2004 at 22:08 UTC
MS SQL Server and Sybase are from the same code base. MS bought the code from Sybase (silly silly move on Sybase's part). Version 6.5 of MS SQL Server was basically Sybase with a GUI, 7 is slighly different and 2000 is even more so. However that said MS has maintained pretty much all the previous interfaces for backward compatibility and to make it easy to migrate from Sybase. :-) If you can get on hands a early version of MS SQL Server you basicall can train yourself on Sybase. :-)	[reply]
Re^3: The need to work and re-train by DrHyde (Prior) on Sep 29, 2004 at 09:01 UTC
I had thought the main add of MS SQL Server was a GUI tool set and under the hood, it was still much the same. Many years ago I used MS SQL Server. It was so similar to Sybase that I was actually trained on Sybase. I didn't use a Sybase GUI, but that doesn't mean that there wasn't one, it could have been taken away so we could learn how to do things properly. These days, Sybase does indeed have GUI admin tools, at least on Mac OS X, which look almost identical to the ones I was using on NT those many years ago. There are free developer licences available for Sybase. Download and play.	[reply]