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protomyth on March 3, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Warren Buffett sells his Oracle shares, retains $4...

SQL Server is a fork of Sybase’s code, so the child product became much more popular than the parent.

simtel20 on March 3, 2019 [–]

My understanding is that it's a complete rewrite, perhaps more than once at this point.

protomyth on March 3, 2019 | [–]

Probably, but it started as a fork. Last I looked a T-SQL programmer can adapt pretty quickly still.

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