Re: comparing Oracle and mysql

I may be wrong here but I believe MySQL has no foreign keys in the database. If so your boss and your customer will be faced with an interesting database design - one where every relationship would have to be built in to the front end.

"Pino Gargiulo" <jk3380_at_naida.org> wrote in message news:93npjj$coh$1_at_fe1.cs.interbusiness.it...
> Hello gurus,
>
> Please don't hate me for my next questions! I'm a novice Oracle DBA still
> working with
> 7.3; I carefully studied the Administrators Guide, Server SQL Reference
 and
> am almost
> through with the Tuning manual, so I feel quite confortable with Oracle.
>
> This afternoon my boss came to me with the news that I'll be working on a
> new
> e-commerce project for a major multinational that will be based on mysql .
 I
> questioned
> why use mysql instead of Oracle and the answer simple was 'The customer
> decided".
> I came up with some initial reason to avoid this solution, mainly non
> existant
> transactions, unreliability under high loads, no support for nested
 selects.
> Now I've
> got a new task: demostrate that Oracle is better than mysql! Why don't I
> learn to
> shut up!!!!.
>
> I've done some surfing and came up with some comparisons between mysql and
> Postgres
> but not much with Oracle.
>
> Anybody has something handy I can use_
>
> TIA to all
>
> /PG
>
>
Received on Fri Jan 12 2001 - 17:27:58 CST