Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 03:44:00 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga <roelof@eboa.com> To: freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: QLRe: LRe: Oracle, Message-ID: <3AF9F260.81978862@eboa.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105100816100.629-100000@prophet.alphaque.com>
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Since neither MX nor A records were available... Dinesh Nair wrote: > > ... > offlist message. i'd be interested to hear more about this. from what i > read, mysql does have transactions with berkeley db tables, and these can > be mixed and matched with the myisam tables in a database. So I heard. Surely a big step away from atomicity by manual locking. Still, I ask you, what edge do Berkeley DB tables and such have that Oracle can but hope to aspire to? That MySQL is moving forward I do not doubt. That MySQL is a serious alternative to Oracle or DB/2, Sybase, Ingres, Informix, Interbase, I do. From 5.4 (http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_Compatibility.html#Missing_functions) : http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_Compatibility.html#Missing_Transactions http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_Compatibility.html#Missing_Triggers etc. And of course, "MySQL doesn't yet support views, but we plan to implement these to about 4.1." followed by some gobledegook about views being read-only. MySQL is a nice DBMS for its niche. But that's all. And it's enough. Something most people don't seem to understand. Guess they're the kind who would love to have a Rolls-Royce for a golf cart. Roelof PS or a mini-cooper to drive the queen around ;) -- _______________________________________________________________________ eBOAź est. 1982 http://eBOA.com/ tel. +31-58-2123014 mailto:info@eBOA.com?subject=Information_request fax. +31-58-2160293 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message
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