[Gllug] Accessing MS SQL Server from linux

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On 23 Feb 2007, Thomi Richards told this:

>> I'm not MS bashing (this time) but what is the point in this? It sounds
>> like a poor attempt at transactions.
>>
>> Does MSSQL have transaction support?
>
> Sounds like caching to me... I can see why caching code might be a
> good thing to do...

Why does caching of SQL statements need a new magic `execute this
dammit' statement? Oracle and PostgreSQL handle it fine without
any such rubbish (well, Oracle's SQL*Plus has a horrid terminate-
commands-with-/-on-their-own-line thing, but that's just a frontend
idiosyncrasy).

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