[dba-SQLServer] [AccessD] MySQL

Postgesql and Postgres Plus are the heirs apparent. They can now do what
MySQL will ever be allowed to do and that is become an enterprise database.
Oracle has no intention of building a free competitor.

Read more: http://www.postgresql.org/,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostgreSQL and
http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/products/postgres-plu
s-advanced-server

There are lots of documents and samples and the product is very stable.
There has been a lot of excitement with the latest versions.

Jim
  

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur
Fuller
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011 6:53 PM
To: Discussion concerning MS SQL Server
Subject: Re: [dba-SQLServer] [AccessD] MySQL

There are some nice things about MySQL but on the other hand I definitely do
not like where Oracle is going with this puppy since its acquisition of Sun
and by inheritance MySQL. I'm still on the fence about these developments,
but quite frankly I am leaning against Oracle on all these transmutations of
what was originally a simple, straightforward approach. At last
recollection, Monty has departed, and with him, I fear, has the guiding
vision of this product.

Frankly, I am all over the place on where next to go: I look at Mongo and
see it exquisite for web-apps but not for OLTP situations. I look at
PostGreSQL and think it's got a bunch of things right. I look at Oracle and
MS-SQL and think they have some things right as well. I frankly do not have
any clue into which basket to toss my next eggs.

Arthur

On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Stuart McLachlan
<stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>wrote:

> I run MySQL locally as part of a WAMP installation and remotely on our
> FreeBSD servers.
>
> I use phpMyAdmin for all the administration.   It's a very intuitive
> interface.
>
> It's possibly worth installing WAMP just for the phpMyAdmin.
>
> --
> Stuart
>
>
> On 17 Sep 2011 at 19:24, jwcolby wrote:
>
> > For now I have to figure out how to create a database.  Is it the same
> > concept as SQL Server?  A file or set of files where tables, indexes,
> > views etc are stored?  I assumed there would be some visual designer
> > that would allow me to create the db, then tables etc.  It looks like
> > that stuff is in "SQL Development".
> >
> > This thing looks pretty nice, but very different on the surface.
> >
>
>
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