On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 10:34:31 -0500, Rick Root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric Creese wrote: > > Does not sound as if you Oracle tunned properly and being that you do not > > have DBA on staff that can make it challenging. With it tunned properly it > > runs great in my oppinion. Plus your applications may not be tunned > > properly either. I also Run SQL2K and it has its benefits as well. Dabbled > > little with MySql. Basically it comes down to what is best or the job and > > what it is you are willing to support > > I don't doubt that Oracle can be very very fast. I even went to a week > long oracle performance tuning class (taught by an Oracle employee, at > an Oracle facility in Reston), but it was all just way too complicated.
MySQL can also be *extremely* fast -- depending on how well you've tuned it and your specific needs. One really great part of MySQL is that each table can use a different handler, and the MyISAM tables are *very* fast for indexed reads and many inserts. Since they are *not* transaction safe, they don't have all the overhead of MS-SQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, etc when you don't need that overhead (data warehousing for example). I just rewrote the training materials for MySQL's week-long MySQL intro course, which includes about 1.5 days on tuning. For many types of web applications MySQL properly tuned can easily compete with Oracle -- there's several presentations coming up at the MySQL Users Conf in April on multi-terabyte MySQL database projects... > I bet if we had a DBA on staff, we'd be sticking with Oracle =) One thing about MS-SQL that's great is that it works really well *out of the box*. MySQL and Oracle out of the box may or may not be tuned properly. Simply enabling the query cache in MySQL 4.1+ can provide a drastic improvement in applications that do a lot of repeated read (blog, content delivery sites, catalogs) but you have to know about it. > > - Rick -- John Paul Ashenfelter CTO/Transitionpoint [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:195401 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
