Re: About Itzik's "Maintaining Hierarchies"

From: robert <gnuoytr_at_rcn.com>
Date: 21 Sep 2004 20:27:15 -0700
Message-ID: <da3c2186.0409211927.3d05c18f@posting.google.com>

jcelko212_at_earthlink.net (--CELKO--) wrote in message news:<18c7b3c2.0409211415.7284428e_at_posting.google.com>...
> >> Many of my customers indicates that they want to switch to MySQL
> etc. in a near future. And since MySQL (among others) doesn't support
> Triggers, the idea of having triggers to maintain hierarchical data
> becomes a problem. <<\
>
> The customers are dangerous idiots -- of course :) Do they know why?
> They shoud not care as long as the applications work correctly and
> fast enough. if they just want to go to an open source RDBMS, then
> you can get them on Ingres from CA now.

or Postgres
or FireBird

not that the DB is often (ever?) a signficant part of the cost of the application (4GL [&oracleBashers] stuff excepted).

BobTheDataBaseBoy Received on Tue Sep 21 2004 - 22:27:15 CDT