Operative word here is "start". Having spent a fair bit of time poking at MySQL (albeit not the most recent version, nor the MariaDB fork), let's just say it's not DB2. Not that it's not a good product, especially given it's price, but it definitely does a number of things in a non-standard way. One of the most annoying is that table names are case sensitive on *nix operating systems, in direct conflict with the SQL standard. And to add to the confusion, table names are not cases sensitive on Windows.
But again, for the price, one probably is willing to put up with the quirks. A couple of years ago I would have assumed that portability of applications between databases would be relatively easy, but it turns out that it's really not easy at all. Scott Chapman On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 07:51:14 -0500, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: >Can _you_ say "Linux", "OpenBSD", "NetBSD" or "FreeBSD"? Combine with >PostgreSQL or MariaDB (MySQL fork) and Apache or NGINX and you're got >a great start for an OLTP system. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
