Re: Migration from Oracle to MySQL

2007-07-31 Thread Martijn Tonies
LOL - an entertaining read! Entertaining? I feel to see the humor in his post. I thought it was concise and well written, with an undertone of I know I'm swearing in church but So yes, I found it entertaining (I agree that it was not necessarily humorous or funny). Ah right :-)

Re: Migration from Oracle to MySQL

2007-07-30 Thread Martijn Tonies
Storage engines are unique to MySQL? yes. Is that good? YMMV. Most of the purported benefits can be achieved with Oracle's features without the compromises of balkanised storage engines. You're right, they're not offered by Oracle, or anyone else ... there's a reason no other

Re: Migration from Oracle to MySQL

2007-07-30 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Martijn Tonies wrote: LOL - an entertaining read! Entertaining? I feel to see the humor in his post. I thought it was concise and well written, with an undertone of I know I'm swearing in church but So yes, I found it entertaining (I agree that it was not necessarily humorous

Re: Migration from Oracle to MySQL

2007-07-29 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Grant Allen wrote: Storage engines are unique to MySQL? yes. Is that good? YMMV. Most of the purported benefits can be achieved with Oracle's features without the compromises of balkanised storage engines. You're right, they're not offered by Oracle, or anyone else ... there's a reason

Re: Migration from Oracle to MySQL

2007-07-27 Thread Luca Ferrari
On Thursday 26 July 2007 Rajesh Mehrotra's cat, walking on the keyboard, wrote: Check out http://www-css.fnal.gov/dsg/external/freeware/mysql-vs-pgsql.html Please note that PostgreSQL provides a gateway to other databases thanks to the DBI-Link extension, as well as it support more than

Re: Migration from Oracle to MySQL

2007-07-26 Thread Grant Allen
Tangirala, Srikalyan wrote: Hi All: Could you provide some more information about Oracle limitations, MySQL limitations, Oracle vs. MySQL etc? Sure, let's play devil's advocate for a minute. Some things unique to MySQL that Oracle does not offer include: - Storage engines, choices like

RE: Migration from Oracle to MySQL

2007-07-26 Thread sliebman
: RE: Migration from Oracle to MySQL Check out http://www-css.fnal.gov/dsg/external/freeware/mysql-vs-pgsql.html Raj Mehrotra hccs - Experts in Healthcare Learning [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Tangirala, Srikalyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007

Re: Migration from Oracle to MySQL

2007-07-26 Thread Martijn Tonies
Hi, Could you provide some more information about Oracle limitations, MySQL limitations, Oracle vs. MySQL etc? I thought it was your study? MySQL doesn't have (compared to Oracle): - check constraints - a procedural language as mature as Oracle PL/SQL - triggers on a per statement basis as

RE: Migration from Oracle to MySQL

2007-07-26 Thread Tangirala, Srikalyan
Thanks for your input Raj. Regards, Sri -Original Message- From: Rajesh Mehrotra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 11:32 AM To: Tangirala, Srikalyan; cluster Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: RE: Migration from Oracle to MySQL Check out http://www-css.fnal.gov

RE: Migration from Oracle to MySQL

2007-07-26 Thread Rajesh Mehrotra
Check out http://www-css.fnal.gov/dsg/external/freeware/mysql-vs-pgsql.html Raj Mehrotra hccs - Experts in Healthcare Learning [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Tangirala, Srikalyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 11:11 AM To: cluster Cc: