39 messages in com.mysql.lists.mysqlRe: Oracle vs MySQL contest
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Sasha Pachev24 Apr 1999 11:49 
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Mogens Melander26 Apr 1999 04:06 
Brian Timmins26 Apr 1999 04:27 
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Alvin Starr26 Apr 1999 07:13 
Sasha Pachev26 Apr 1999 08:00 
Fred Lindberg26 Apr 1999 15:48 
Michael Widenius26 Apr 1999 15:59 
Sasha Pachev26 Apr 1999 16:43 
Dan Watts26 Apr 1999 18:55 
jonathan michaels26 Apr 1999 19:59 
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Paul DuBois26 Apr 1999 20:57 
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Richard McLean26 Apr 1999 21:09 
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John Elliott26 Apr 1999 21:37 
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Fred Read27 Apr 1999 01:16 
Luuk de Boer27 Apr 1999 01:43 
Luuk de Boer27 Apr 1999 01:55 
Fred Lindberg27 Apr 1999 07:33 
Patrick Greenwell27 Apr 1999 08:41 
Fred Read27 Apr 1999 09:06 
Derick H Siddoway27 Apr 1999 09:22 
Patrick Greenwell27 Apr 1999 09:25 
Dan Nelson27 Apr 1999 11:02 
Patrick Greenwell27 Apr 1999 12:44 
Sasha Pachev27 Apr 1999 12:45 
Michael Widenius28 Apr 1999 00:33 
V Yau30 Apr 1999 11:11 
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Bill Gerrard03 May 1999 11:05 
Fred Read04 May 1999 01:50 
Sasha Pachev04 May 1999 08:36 
Subject:Re: Oracle vs MySQL contest
From:Patrick Greenwell (patr@stealthgeeks.net)
Date:04/27/1999 08:41:14 AM
List:com.mysql.lists.mysql

On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Fred Read wrote:

I have found it is considerably easier and faster to;

download, configure, compile, link and install MySQL [I have done this on several Linuxes and two versions of <spit> Solaris]

than it is to;

install Informix from the distribution medium. [I have witnessed this on HP/UX and another Unix]

You left out: "Writing the application that will use the database," which I believe was the orginal posters point. There are a large number of applications that rely on specific functionality being present. Some of this functionality(sub-selects, transactions, etc.) is simply not present in MySQL.

presumably, the same applies to Oracle.

With so many applications supporting "foreign" databases through ODBC these days, the "lack of support for MySQL" argument is starting to wear thin...

ODBC isn't a panacea. It also doesn't perform as well when compared to making native SQL calls. Why would anyone want to cripple performance by using ODBC?