Attached is a note from another list member, Guy Hammond.
I agree with most of what Guy says, except that MySqueel does have master-slave replication (though slave cannot be a writeable slave). And I'd add no point-in-time recovery, no incremental backup capability, and though they elude to it, it is not SQL ANSI-92 compliant ("they merely *follow* not *comply* with the SQL ANSI-92 entry level requirements).
MySqueel is fine to play with, but not what you want for a production environment. It's not an RDBMS, but a DBS (plain old database system). If you have a really simple application that is for internal use, it is free, but remember, you do get what you pay for.
--------- Guy Hammand response ---------------
Wow, looks like MySQL is better than Oracle!
Oh, apart from the fact that it doesn't have transactions, foreign keys,
stored procedures, replication, object type definitions, bitmap indexes,
subselects, or indeed, everything else a real database takes for
granted.
Get it? Granted? It doesn't have roles either, heh heh heh
-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Gurevich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 10:00 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: MySQL anyone?
Hi.
does anyone know anything about MySQL? I was assigned
to a pilot to see whether this is something my company
would want to use. Does anyone use it? Any good/bad
opinions?
TIA
Gene
