RE: Witango-Talk: [ot] Databases

[Mike]

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Hi Jamileh,

 

I've had a lot of success with the Firebird database, which was know as Borland Interbase in its former life before it was open-sourced.  It includes more features than MySQL, such as views, stored procedures, triggers, and sequences, and runs on most common platforms.  It also includes a JDBC driver that is coming along quite nicely.  I've only used this database with my Java application programming, so I can't really speak to its Witango usefulness.

 

PostgreSQL is great, but until recently it was only available for UNIXes unless you used the Cygwin stuff in windows.  I think they now have a beta version which installs in Windows natively, and this could potentially work for you as it matures.

 

There's also SAPDB, which I never personally used but which was built to originally support the SAP enterprise applications. 

 

All of these are open source.

 

Some Links:

http://www.sapdb.org/

http://www.firebirdsql.org/

http://www.postgresql.org/

 

Best of luck,

Mike

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From: Wilcox, Jamileh (HSC) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 9:48 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: [ot] Databases

Primarily $$$.  We run some serious data-crunching apps and need to upgrade our server hardware.  We bought new servers, but just discovered that to go over 2G of memory on a SQL server, you must upgrade to SQL Enterprise server at $12K per processor.  With 4 CPUs, that's a large chunk o' change that we haven't budgeted for.

 

So we're looking at other db options as one possible solution.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: McElhinny, Greg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 8:55 PM
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Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: [ot] Databases

Wondering why you are getting away from MS SQL 2000?

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From: Wilcox, Jamileh (HSC) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wed 8/11/2004 6:09 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Witango-Talk: [ot] Databases

We run all of our databases on MS-SQL2000 or MS Access.  (I've been slowly working towards moving all the Access databases to SQL.)

We're considering changing database servers.  Under discussion so far are Oracle and MySQL.  The campus has a site license for Oracle, so purchase cost isn't much of a factor.  I've been researching MySQL and it looks a bit limited (no stored procs yet, no scheduler/jobs/etc.), but the new version due out next year has a several of those features added (although I'm not sure *when* in 2005 it'll be available).

How difficult is it to switch to MySQL or Oracle from MS-SQL?  I realize there will be some conversion issues in any db migration (i.e., SQL language variations, datatype variations, etc.), but there appear to be tools available to assist with that.  I'm mostly concerned about the learning curve and how long it would take to come up to speed on a new db.

Does anyone have experience with such a migration, or experience with using more than one of these dbs?  Any info or advice would be most appreciated!

Thanks.

jamileh

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