comparing Oracle and mysql

From: Pino Gargiulo <jk3380_at_naida.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 21:43:49 +0100
Message-ID: <93npjj$coh$1@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 - 14:43:49 CST