Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 17:56:23 +0100 From: Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk> To: des@ofug.org, kenm@icarz.com Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, ixkatl@yahoo.com, jeckermann@verio.net Subject: Re: Oracle, Message-ID: <E14xtjj-000IUR-00@dilbert.fcg.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <xzppudhyxco.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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> meaningless, irrelevant to the issue, or both. MySQL is still a toy. Define 'toy' - the usual meaning of the word implies that it has no useful purpose. Arguing that mySQL is not an RDBMS is reat, and anyone with half a brain will aree with you. Arguing that it has no usefulness in any situation is not a valid conclusion to draw fromthis - unless you are so narrow minded that you think computers are only good for RDBMS systems. The underlying filesystem has no support for RDBMS facilities either. This does not mean that it is an unsuitable place to store data, nor does it mean that fopen(), fclose() etc are 'toys' and unsuitable for writing real systems with. Preseumably you also consider 'dbm' and friends to be toys as well for similar reasons ? There is a useful skill known as "programming" which enables people to build systems on top of already supplied facilites. mySQL provides a set of facilities that extend what flat files provide and are useful to certain people build certain types of system. If you find that you cant live wthout transactional support then you are a poor programmer (there are ways to program around them). On the other hand it may well be a lot more cost-effective if you need them to move to an Oracle platform so you can devote brain power to doing more useful things that overcomming shortcommings of your chosen data storage platform. We have a website that needs fast access to a big list of data, mainly read only. For that we use mySQL. The financial stuff goes into an Oracle database sitting on an OpenVMS system at the backend. We could use the Oracle for the frontend, but it would be slower, much harder to program (there are no Oracle libraries existsing for the web development environment we are using) and extortionately expensive as Oracle dont provide sensible lisenses for the VMS versions of their products (despite this being the most stableplace to run them). In short maybe you should learn something about using the apoprorpiate tool for the job - and not denigrating other tols just because they are unsuitable for *your* job. -pcf. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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