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"s. keeling" wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 03:19:43PM -0600, Sasha Pachev wrote:
> >
> > Just to make it difficult for people to migrate to Oracle, the only
> > documentation that we provide for the PASSWORD() function algorithm is the
> > source :-)
> >
> > On a serious note, what is it that makes MySQL not good enough for your
> > application that you have to migrate to Oracle? If it already works, you have
> > found your way around the lack of sub-queries and enforced referential
> > integrity. Performance wise, MySQL is much faster on the same hardware in
> > most cases. Perhaps you could consider convincing your management that you
> > will get better value of your money if you just purchase MySQL support.
>
> I just had a discussion with a friend who decided he couldn't care
> less how fast, cheap, and efficient MySQL was; Oracle was his gravy
> train, and he was not about to suggest anything as radical to others
> as giving up their common gravy train.
>
> I asked him if the "Oracle experience" he'd picked up was _Oracle
> specific_ skills, or just basic rdbms skills, to which he never
> replied. But then, "Oracle" is all the recruiters are looking for on
> their resumes; why would they put "MySQL" or "rdbms" there if
> recruiters were looking for "Oracle"?
>
> I just don't get it. Oracle promises features that never seem to work
> 'til years afterwards, costs a mountain of money, and (for instance)
> SQL*Plus is garbage compared to mysql-client.
>
> It must be the glossy brochures. MySQL needs glossy brochures.
>
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