Re: Oracle vs Mysql

what is DBI?

is postgre free? Is it like linux where you pay for support? I cant find any licensing info on the website. Most shops dont need oracle, sql server, sybase, or DB2.

Most applications are small. I was on a project where the government had an Oracle EE license on windows. They didnt even use foreign key constraints. Had a whopping 13 tables, 20 MB of data, and 10-15 users. Any free database could have handled that.
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>
> On 01/14/2004 12:44:25 PM, "Jesse, Rich" wrote:
> > If you have the choice, look at PostgreSQL in addition to MySQL. From
what
> > I've seen, it's more mature than MySQL.
>
> I second that. PostgresSQL supports transactions and uses perl as its
> scripting language. From what little I read and saw (just a little pilot
> project with the goal to see "what the heck is Postgres"), it's a very
> decent database, with a decent performance and capabilities sufficient
> for a small, departmental database server. I know nothing of clustering,
> distributed database, database links, replication and alike. In other
words,
> I wouldn't use it for an enterprise-wide server for GE or Wall-Mart, but
> it can be quite a convenient storage space for a small corner shop or a
> small department. Because of perl and DBI, exchanging data with other
> servers like oracle or UDB (DB2) is easy.
>
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