G'day Robert, Does it support the following?
Sub-Selects Views (which MySQL doesn't) and DATE and TIME data types (rather than DATETIME). Just trying to save myself some homework time here... At 15:26 02/08/02 -0400, you wrote: >Yup > >It supports everything you'd need. > >Besides the fact that it also has sequences, I love the fact that its >varchar2 implementation has no size limit. So you can have a >varchar2(32000) and it works just fine. No need for CLOB > >R > >On Friday, August 2, 2002, at 02:22 PM, Ben Johansen wrote: > >>Hi, >>Does PostgreSQL support Stored Procedures? >> >>Ben Johansen - <http://www.pcforge.com>http://www.pcforge.com >>Authorized Witango Reseller >><http://www.pcforge.com/WitangoGoodies.htm>http://www.pcforge.com/WitangoGoodies.htm >> >>Latest downloads & List Archives @ >><http://www.witango.ws>http://www.witango.ws >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>[<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>On Behalf Of Jesse Parker >>Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 5:39 AM >>To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk >>Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Database question >> >>I'm very happy with PostgreSQL (www.postgresql.org) >> >>I believe MySQL has better and more elaborate administration GUIs than >>Postgres. >> >>I only have experience with Postgres from the command prompt, where it >>behaves a lot like a well thought out version of Oracle. Backups and >>restores are very easy. Good SQL client. Support for everything. >>Commercial support available. >> >> >>On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Alex Kac wrote: >> >>>Here�s a more on-topic question for here.... >>> >>>We�re a Win2k shop looking to move to OS X Server 10.2 on XServe. >>Currently >>>we�re running SQL Server 2k � but frankly, part of my goal is to get >>rid of >>>all MS software for our servers. There are quite a few reasons for >>this, but >>>I won�t elaborate. >>> >>>Now, my budget is already going to go down the tubes with the >>XServes...and >>>possibly WiTango (price still matters, and I�ll say that a large part >>of my >>>reluctance to embrace paying $$$ for WiTango 5 is the price and my >>viewpoint >>>that yes, its just an SP2 derivative). But you don�t want to skimp on >>the >>>database. So...I may just keep one of our servers for SQL Server � but >>what >>>low cost or freeware databases do you suggest? MySQL is what many >>people >>>seem to use, but from my reading � not experience mind you � its not a >>>�real� database. Yet large sites like SlashDot and others run off it >>just >>>fine. >>> >>>I�m not looking for a database war here, I�m not looking for support >>options >>>� I�m just asking from what you currently run or have run in the past >>� what >>>do you recommend? >>> >>>-- >>>Alex Kac, CEO/Developer >>> >>>Innovation in Personal and Business Information Management >>><http://www.pocketinformant.com/>http://www.pocketinformant.com/ >>> >>>zoomzoom >>> >>> >> >>________________________________________________________________________ >>TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body >> >>________________________________________________________________________ >>TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body ></blockquote></x-html> Warmest regards, Tom Grimshaw coy: Just For You Software tel: 612 9552 3311 fax: 612 9566 2164 mobile: 0414 675 903 post: PO Box 470 Glebe NSW 2037 Australia street: 3/66 Wentworth Park Rd Glebe NSW 2037 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.just4usoftware.com.au "... the control of impulse -- is the first principle of civilization."-- Will Durant, Pulitzer Prize winning philosopher, writer and historian the most needed product in the world can be found at www.thewaytohappiness.org This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential to the intended recipient and may be privileged. If you have received this email inadvertently or you are not the intended recipient, you may not disseminate, distribute, copy or in any way rely on it. Further, you should notify the sender immediately and delete the email from your computer. Whilst we have taken precautions to alert us to the presence of computer viruses, we cannot guarantee that this email and any files transmitted with it are free from such viruses. ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body
