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AWS Goes After Microsoft’s SQL Server with Babelfish for Aurora PostgreSQL

32 pointsby rsecoraover 4 years ago

8 comments

kogirover 4 years ago
To get the best performance and proper lock ordering for concurrent updates I usually need to resort to using a variety of MSSQL only SQL extensions. (Lock hints, isolation levels, specific join methods, etc)<p>Is there a list of exactly what coverage this has? Does it support pinning execution plans?<p>Here’s an example of the crap I had to resort to in my last big project: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;realartists&#x2F;shiphub-server&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;RealArtists.ShipHub.Database&#x2F;Procedures&#x2F;BulkUpdateIssues.sql" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;realartists&#x2F;shiphub-server&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;Re...</a>
mrweaselover 4 years ago
I am seriously impressed if that actually works. For simply queries, sure, it&#x27;s tricky, but it makes sense that you can do it. For complex queries, I have no idea how you&#x27;d even start to implement something like that.<p>Do they translate Transact SQL to Postgresql syntax, for do that build a new &quot;language parser&quot;-thing and use the internals of Postgresql to store and process the queries?
DharmaPoliceover 4 years ago
This sounds great but performance is the obvious question. Is this intended for long term usage? Or is this one of those stop gap solutions you&#x27;re intended to replace but end up keeping for 5 years?<p>Also interesting to know how they map SQL Server security on top of this.<p>Very cool sounding but at the same time I might dread inheriting a system running on this if I started a new job.
ProAmover 4 years ago
This line cracked me up &quot;AWS CEO Andy Jassy said. “Customers are fed up with and sick of incumbents.”&quot;
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bdcravensover 4 years ago
Far more discussion yesterday, on the original AWS announcement: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25267204" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=25267204</a>
car10sover 4 years ago
It seems quite interesting if it&#x27;s 100% compatible. It has a lot of potential, but then customers may not want to migrates some tools since those tools don&#x27;t officially support this product.
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wayneftwover 4 years ago
I wonder if this means that it will be compatible with SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and the SQL Data Tools (SDDT) that come with Visual Studio community edition.<p>One thing I really like about SQL Server aside from the high quality tooling is that I can write stored procedures which return multiple heterogeneous result sets with no ceremony. The TSQL dialect is one of the best IMO.
ssrini2over 4 years ago
Won&#x27;t this attract an API lawsuit?