It's fast, simple, reliable, and the price is right. It does not have interfaces to a lot of the IBM middleware, but if that's not important to you, it's a good solid data engine.
Referential integrity is present in both Postgres and MySQL, but the MySQL transactional integrity code isn't as well tested as the code in Postgres. It's good, but Postgres has had the capability longer and it's been whacked on harder. -- db David Boyes Sine Nomine Associates > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Noll, Ralph > Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 8:43 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: MySql > > > We are thinking about using MySql for all our production work > instead of DB2.. > > any comments, gotcha, or anything else?? > > thanks > > Ralph >
