On Wed, August 17, 2005 5:07 pm, Andy George said: > Not intended as a slur, or sarcasm, or to cast aspersions to anyones > intellegence, the question is purely one of query from someone that > doesnt know a blind difference between Postgre and My SQLs > >>You might like to consider PostgreSQL instead of MySQL. >> >> >> > Why? > > Andy > Postgres was originally designed as a multiuser database, much like access wasn't. It is a much more professional product, especially where data maintenance and health comes into it. It also contains a 'programming language' which can be used to massively simplify the design of and major project by keeping the data management logic within the database. Triggers aid this as well.
There are a few other things... like it runs on M$ platforms as well, offering a far greater audience. And there are the stupid licensing things that MySQL AB are doing, where you must buy a license if you wish to access the database from PHP at the command line, rather than using it to support a database that start to hack you off when testing ( amongst other things ). IMO mysql is a great database to learn the basics on, and to use for your own purposes, but postgresql will scale far better, and keep you going until you're making enough money to be able to afford to upgrade to Oracle! -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what?
