It works for me and it's where I have a strong skill set. Steve.

I intially started off with dBaseIII+, Clipper and FoxPro, Then grew with Oracle from version 5 to 8 and just recently tried to touch upon 10g.

After all this, my skill set is strong in SQL Server 2000 (working on 2005).

I love SQL Server, for its ease of use. Like Steve says, I have never seen anything that SQL Server cannot do that other databases can do, atleast in the modest sized data environments I have worked with. I may not have worked with Amazon's data or Bank Of America's data or Verizon's data just to name a few which I presume will have a large data base.

With the amount of work that needs to be accomplished in a single day, in my opinion, it is unwise to do everything from the command line. (I don't like Oracle's UI). Even if command line seems to be the best fit, then Query Analyzer wins the race.

Thankz Steve for bringing up such issues. We need to know that SQL Server is in there as one of the industry standard databases. People out there seem to still judge MS products with the NT4 in mind, when the poor thing used to crash every once in a while. The child has grown, in that for the better.

jambu