jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Sun Sep 18 21:36:46 CDT 2011
Am I missing something? Oracle definitely is charging for their versions but it seems that a "community edition" is available, still maintained and updated by the community. With that and a gui it looks like I am good to go, or at least good to try. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com On 9/17/2011 9:52 PM, Arthur Fuller wrote: > 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. >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dba-SQLServer mailing list >> dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver >> http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> >> > _______________________________________________ > dba-SQLServer mailing list > dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver > http://www.databaseadvisors.com > >