I've used a lot of Oracle, some MS Access and I'm newish to MySQL. I found it easy to write an abstraction layer for Ms Access and Oracle despite their different approaches to some important things. I find MySQL very sparse by comparison and I spend more time working round the db than working with it. Unlike Oracle the richness and integrity of language is simply missing - these people have lived without something as useful as sub-queries for a long time. (The argument being that speed and data integrity are all-important). It's more a file system than a relational database. I know you asked about books rather than a comparison of the products, but the software philosophy is reflected in the documentation. If someone else pays you to be an Oracle Dba then I bet you have at least a 10 foot shelf of comprehensive documentation. This list is about as good as it gets (see your previous response). There is a PDF copy of the manual somewhere and setting up MySql was accompilshed by a colleague who wouldn't have known where to start with Oracle, so it has that in its favour.
So, if you're thinking of migrating, think carefully! If I could get Oracle to give me a sensible price (say USD 1000) to sell their db with my product I would be out of here so fast. So far with mySQL i've written my own database for a particular (simple) structure that it wouldn't handle to my satisfaction; I've written my own date/time routines to calculate things like seconds between 2 datetimes (despite a wealth of datatime functions, this one isn't available unless you convert to 'Unix' dates which expire in 2036) and I've written functions to handle the fact that in 'C' all data is returned as strings rather than as native data types. Sigh. - Andy "Johnson, Michael" wrote: > > What is the best book on MySQL with regard > to its Architecture and how it starts up, shutdowns, > processes queries, rolls back data, etc etc. ? > > I am not looking for a SQL book here. > > What is the best My SQL book you have read ? > > Thank you in advance. > > Mike > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
