Re: Oracle 10g Express, should just about kill the MySQL and Postgresql gang

From: boobie <boobie.webdeveloper_at_mailnull.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 12:23:18 -0500
Message-ID: <dko27v$91a$1@reader2.panix.com>

"HansF"
> Why can you not separate by schema? Why do you want to incur the overhead
> of separate instances?

Of course, 100% agree. and 100% obvious. But.....
Please step OUTSIDE of the typical Oracle-centric ways of thinking for a sec,
please step outside the Enterprise Oracle-DBA role for a sec.... and think in the context of the "open-source MySQL/PHP" to understand what I was trying to say.
How about an example:

e.g.
Joey is a freshman. He took some beginner Oracle classes. His church has a web site (hosted by ACME hosting company) consisting a few static pages.

Church wants to add more content, forms and dynamic pages for this and that.....church needs help
Joey says to self "aha ! with XE I can help my chucrch and also learn things ! great !"

Too bad, there will be 2 possible outcome: 1) ACME found out about the "single instance" limitation and informs Joey "Sorry we already installed one on this server for another customer....but we can put up a MySQL for you...." 2) ACME never bothers to check and unknowingly they are all running afoul of the license agreement.

So , IMO, with that "single-instance-per-server" limitation....XE can barely touch MySQL share, Received on Mon Nov 07 2005 - 11:23:18 CST