Re: Oracle comparison

"Generic Poster" <nospam_at_nospam.com> wrote in message news:3D0FFDBA.21B80597_at_nospam.com...
> Well, I am starting to get an interesting picture here. That my
> programmer with Oracle experience may not have enough to experience to
> do a really good job. That all these db's are not just "dialects of SQL
> and if you know one, you know them all", which is what I was told. Thx
> for the advice.

Anyone who tells you that doesn't know what they are talking about plain and simple.

Consider the following sql which should be valid f

>
> Sure, if the client (or any client) wanted to go Oracle, I would love to
> hire an Oracle expert (beginning to sound like that is what it takes).
> Just not sure if anyone would want to work for my wages, would be $40-45
> per hour US. I have no idea if that is a good rate for an experienced
> Oracle programmer.
> >
> > A few points... yes SQL is open source
>
> MySQL? PostgreSQL?
>
> but it is implemented differently in
> > different databases.
>
> It looks like MySQL is lacking in a # of ways.
>
> I have seen quite a few questions on here from former
> > SQL Server
>
> MS SQL Server?
>
> people on how to do the same thing in Oracle. People often fall
> > into the trap of wanting to make everything cross platform...
>
> Huh? No, the thing we were worried about was this. It really looked
> like PostgreSQL could do this job nicely. But at some point in the
> future, if the client got really big, he may want to go to a commercial
> db. And the question was, how easy would it be to migrate the Postgres
> stuff to a commercial db? You know?
>
> problem is you
> > dont take advantage of any of the best features in any of the tools so
you
> > end up with a mediocre application that is wonderfully portable.
>
> Huh? But Oracle is totally cross-platform. Our point was, we like the
> idea of designing a db that can move with the OS, if the OS is changed.
> That is cross-platform.
> >
> > BTW, who and what URL is running a 4TB database with open source?
>
> No one, I guess. That was simply a weird figure that came out of an
> article. The article suggested that at a 4 TB db, most open source db's
> fall down and you really need to go commercial. :)
>
> I have to
> > see it to believe it. What kind of concurrency load do they have? Do
they
> > have complex business rules? Just curious... I hear these kinds of
things
> > thrown around sometimes and would like to check them out to satisfy my
> > curiousity.
>
> No, you just misunderstood, man. :)
>
> Thx for your comments.
>
> <snip>
Received on Thu Jun 20 2002 - 14:26:24 CDT