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Microsoft does this with their products like SQL Server. Which is confusing and can cause name collisions . Due to their dominance it’s not hard to search for b
by zitterbewegung 9y ago
Microsoft does this with their products like SQL Server. Which is confusing and can cause name collisions . Due to their dominance it’s not hard to search for but smaller products would have that problem .
- atonse 9y agoDepending on what you're googling for, it usually provides enough context to know the phrase means the MS server. Plus, even in colloquial language, we don't ever call a database server an SQL server. They're referred to as databases, or by their names.
- greggyb 9y agoIn the absence of Microsoft's product, 'SQL server' may very well have become a generic term for an RDBMS instance. We cannot know.
- dhd415 9y agoThat may be the case for other products, but in this case, they acquired the "Sybase SQL Server" product and simply renamed it "Microsoft SQL Server".