Oracle Woe's - Pam Issue?

[alex at crackpot.org]

Quoting Craig White <craig at 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