KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote:
The organization hired an outside consultant to
evaluate which SQL engine to go with. This is
what he sent to us:
...
SQL Server 2000 is a complete Relational Database
Management System (RDBMS) that also includes integrated
analysis functionality for OLAP and data mining.
Hi Kevin,
I'm a system administrator for a small (200 people) branch of a large
university/medical school. I've worked with MySQL and use it as my database
of choice for web-based dynamic content. I would not consider myself an
experienced, professionally-trained, knowledgeable database
Martijn, thank you very much for your analysis. I hope others will continue to join in.
With regard to your point quoted below, are you referring to PostgreSQL, and would
that be a
stronger competitor to MS SQL Server 2000 than either the current version of MySQL or
MySQL 5?
Thanks, again, for
Hi Kevin,
Martijn, thank you very much for your analysis.
I hope others will continue to join in.
So do I :-)
With regard to your point quoted below, are you referring to PostgreSQL,
and would that be a
stronger competitor to MS SQL Server 2000 than either the current version
of MySQL or
I have not work with it but postgres is supposed to work great in
/BSD/Linux/Unix/solaris environment
Which platform are you using?
:-)
Nestor A. Florez
Martijn Tonies [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/7/2003 10:08:53 AM
Hi Kevin,
Martijn, thank you very much for your analysis.
I hope others will
It sounds like a copy and paste from Microsoft, but that is just my
guess. An objective recommendation with show pluses and minuses of
both. It most definitely does not sound like this consultant is
qualified to suggest a database product. What about PostgresSQL,
Oracle, Sybase, DB2? They all
Nestor, thanks for your question.
The platform will actually be dictated by the SQL engine, not the
other way around, which is more typically the case. If we go with
MS SQL Server, we'll build a separate host, NT I would guess, to
host it. I'm only responsible for Unix and Linux boxes here, so
that do
very nicely without them. Why are you different?
John Griffin
-Original Message-
From: KEVIN ZEMBOWER [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 1:53 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Need help comparing MySQL to MS SQL Server
Nestor, thanks for your question
kevin,
i tend to think the consultant really just read something that microsoft
sent him. it doesn't sound like he's qualified to suggest one database
or another.
We've been usinf mysql for a year now. We use InnoDB tables, which give
us primary key/foreign key constraints and transactions.
