On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 02:31:32PM -0800, Fisher, Julie wrote: > And if you go to their web site www.mysql.com, they "crash me" compare > against Oracle 8.1.6 and damn, they appear to look good. "They gots lots > more green stars than Oracle, by george." Of course most of those > categories are SQL functions/capabilities. They don't even touch on memory > allocation, types of backups/archiving, so on and so forth. And of course > the lack of column constraints,table constraints, foreign keys...<tsk> just > noise. Wait!! Dammit Oracle!! Give me the tinyint type! MySQL has it! > > ...maybe I'm just being fussy....
Also, FYI, the performance comparisons at www.mysql.com are based on an *out of the box* Oracle configuration. No tuning at all. You can guess how well Oracle performs. They have told me that they'd be happy to accept an updated comparison with a well tuned Oracle installation. Should be easy to do for someone here, they supply all the benchmark script and an automated harness for it. Tim. > Julie Fisher > Sandia National Laboratories > Oracle 8i DBA - OCP8i > Solaris 2.6,7/HP-UX 11.0 System Administrator > Web Server Administrator > > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 2:24 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > Also the article did not mention that in a lot of ways, MySQL is not nearly > ready for prime time... > > MOYMMV > > Robert G. Freeman - Oracle8i OCP > Oracle DBA Technical Lead > CSX Midtier Database Administration > > The Cigarette Smoking Man: Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can > take his freedom away from him. > > > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: Freeman, Robert > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 > San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: Fisher, Julie > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 > San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Tim Bunce INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
