Richard Gordon wrote:
>>Maybe just move to a real enterprise level database like PostgreSQL? MySQL is the darling of web people who never understood database design to begin with, but just knew that having database access was cool and were willing to learn enough SQL to get it to work. PostgreSQL may not scale quite as well as Oracle, but most of us are not trying to service e-bay and would prefer that the $60-600 grand that Oracle costs go towards programmer fees.<< What I thought, but I was trying very hard to avoid a flamefest on the list! Oh well, you had the balls and I didn't! :-) BTW, PostgreSQL may not scale to the degree that Oracle does, but it really performs better than Oracle in situations other than the Ultimate Ellison Dream, which is the 80-90% of the realworld. I'm sure you know this link already, but here's a benchmark (yes, there are lies and then there are benchmarks!): http://apachetoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-08-14-008-01-PR-MR-SW ...Edmund. _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
