[TriLUG] Interesting article: Ellison: Linux will wipe Microsoft out of the data center

[U. Jason Gloege Jr.]

If, by "basics", you mean "the rudimentary storing and retrieving of 
data", then MySQL might be easier.  But if you mean basics = "learning a 
standard set of features I would expect to find in other RDBMS suites", 
then I would probably go with Postgres... to the best of my knowledge, 
it's a little more feature-robust.  MySQL is decent, I write against it 
every day at work, but Postgres has some things that we wish MySQL did, 
and I don't know that they've even been put into 4.x...

So, hey... $.02 from me, too.

Jason

> I'm asking for a beginners aspect of learning the basics.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Perrin" <clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu>
> To: <trilug at trilug.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 12:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Interesting article: Ellison: Linux will wipe
> Microsoft out of the data center
> 
> 
> > Not sure why you'd bother with MySQL - PostgreSQL has more features for
> > the same price.  Just my 2c.
> >
> > ap
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
> > Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
> > clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu
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> >
> > On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Roy Vestal wrote:
> >
> > > Here's a question: to learn the basics of db admin, should I use MySQL,
> or
> > > Posgres?
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Turnpike Man" <turnpike420 at yahoo.com>
> > > To: <trilug at trilug.org>
> > > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 10:57 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Interesting article: Ellison: Linux will wipe
> > > Microsoft out of the data center
> > >
> > >
> > > > I agree... MySQL is great for home grown apps like on personal
> websites...
> > > even
> > > > small apps in business... threat to Oracle? nah...
> > > >
> > > > David M.
> > > >
> > > > --- Chris Hedemark wrote:
> > > > > Our guys have collectively turned their noses up at MySQL after
> trying
> > > > > it on one production application.  Some of the standard features
> they
> > > > > expected from an RDBMS were not there, and they had to do messy SQL
> to
> > > > > get around it.  Don't shoot the messenger.  I don't think MySQL is a
> > > > > serious threat to Oracle, or at least it won't be in the next 5
> years.
> > > > > PostgreSQL isn't as fast for us as Oracle on the same hardware, but
> the
> > > > > money saved can justify faster hardware (and a lot of change left
> > > > > over).  The feature set is there, the scalability is there.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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