Quoting Craig White <
craig@tobyhouse.com>:
> MySQL is immensely popular because it has a bunch of GUI tools for those
> that want to play at being a DBA without actually the foundational
> knowledge. There are a bunch of gotchas with MySQL and eventually they
> tend to get in the way. Not a bad place to start though.
To say that GUI tools are the reason for MySQL's popularity is way off
the mark. MySQL was popular long before there were any GUI tools.
They are more of an afterthought, and are not nearly as useful as the
'mysql' cli interface.
Brian : Base your application on portable SQL, use a db abstraction
layer, and set up a dev environment where you can test your app using
several DBMSs. MySQL can scale quite well, but so can Postgres and
Oracle.
A large part of the decision ought to be what you're comfortable with,
because you'll always get more performance out of a server you
actually understand. Sounds like you prefer Oracle. If you decide to
make the switch to another DBMS, plan to spend a lot of time getting
familiar with it.
alex
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