Posted by DA Morgan on 06/06/05 02:08

Erland Sommarskog wrote:

> Microsoft has in my opinion a quite elegant take on this: you can run a
> database in compatibility mode for an earlier version. This permits
> MS to drop support or to make incompatible changes in order to improve
> things, but still makes it possible for people to migrate.

I'm not sure I'd use the phrase "quite elegant" as it is just a copy of
functionality available in all commercial RDBMS products.

For example Oracle, in its init.ora (now compilable as the spfile), has
a parameter called compatible that can be set to a wide range of
previous versions. That parameter has existed longer than SQL Server.
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