What counts as a real DBMS?

2001-08-01 Thread Philip Mak
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Henrik Edlund wrote: And while we are discussing not cutting corners, those who still use MySQL should switch to a real DBMS before they even think of abstracting the SQL away from their Perl code. That people still use MySQL really shows how many lusers there are with

Re: What counts as a real DBMS?

2001-08-01 Thread Ged Haywood
Hi guys, On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Philip Mak wrote: On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Henrik Edlund wrote: And while we are discussing not cutting corners, those who still use MySQL should switch to a real DBMS before they even think of abstracting What would you consider to be a real DBMS? Guys,

Re: What counts as a real DBMS?

2001-08-01 Thread Robert Landrum
At 4:27 PM -0400 8/1/01, Philip Mak wrote: On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Henrik Edlund wrote: And while we are discussing not cutting corners, those who still use MySQL should switch to a real DBMS before they even think of abstracting the SQL away from their Perl code. That people still use MySQL

Re: What counts as a real DBMS?

2001-08-01 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Philip Mak wrote: PM What would you consider to be a real DBMS? Sybase and Oracle obviously, PM but I actually am the hypothetical programmer with a 233MHz machine with PM 64 MB RAM (hey, it runs emacs fine :/) on a shoestring budget who is PM mostly limited to using freeware

Re: What counts as a real DBMS?

2001-08-01 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Philip Mak wrote: On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Henrik Edlund wrote: And while we are discussing not cutting corners, those who still use MySQL should switch to a real DBMS before they even think of abstracting the SQL away from their Perl code. That people still use

Re: What counts as a real DBMS?

2001-08-01 Thread raptor
ok my 5c, My vote is for Interbase. Why ? +small runtime size +zero administration +FK with CASCADE +I think it runs on more platforms than any other DB +SUSPEND in stored procs +stored procs can be used in FORM clause +can run on less-powerfull PC's Personaly I've used it on Win95, Win98,