Re: lies damn lies and benchmarks

Daniel Morgan <dmorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message news:<3CD9456B.B0451C0F_at_exesolutions.com>...
> Pablo Sanchez wrote:
>
> > "Nuno Souto" <nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam> wrote in message
> > news:3cd8f1c4$0$15474$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au...
> > > > MSSQL is a serious competitor in this market and not just because
> MS
> > > > marketing is better than Oracle marketing. They are pushing a good
> product.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Doubt it. The good product bit. Only reason people use it is
> because MS
> > > makes it so easy and cheap to use in NT. Nothing else.
> >
> > I'm curious, why do you doubt it? Why do you think it's not a good
> > product?
> > --
> > Pablo Sanchez, High-Performance Database Engineering
> > mailto:pablo_at_hpdbe.com
> > http://www.hpdbe.com
> > Available for short-term and long-term contracts
>
> One reason one might doubt it is that part of the development team that
> built the underlying engine left Microsoft three years ago and started
> their own company. Their choice was Oracle on Linux for their own company.
>
> But I do think SQL Server is a decent product. The important thing is that
> one must understand its limitations and try to use it in situations where
> it is clearly out of its league: A common mistake.
>
> Daniel Morgan

MYSQL is not fully relational, it is not ACID compliant. Sorry, I don't feel it is ready for prime time. It is not an enterprise level database.

Mike Received on Wed May 08 2002 - 16:36:04 CDT