From: | mlw <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com> |
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To: | Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL Hacker <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: mysql-pgsql comparison |
Date: | 2002-01-13 14:56:23 |
Message-ID: | 3C41A017.C15CC653@mohawksoft.com |
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I am more concerned with the PHP/MySQL connection. It seems like it is a
defacto grouping. Engineers I know, who do not know SQL, will just use MySQL
because "everyone else does."
Invariably, MySQL (at first) seems like a good decision, then they have to do a
complex query. MySQL just can not execute the queries that a real SQL database
can. If an engineer does not know SQL, he will walk away thinking SQL is a
limiting environment.
An contractor came on to the company with a solid MySQL background. He was a
bright guy, but we are an Oracle/PostgreSQL shop. More than a few times, I had
to rewrite his code to use the SQL engine with a more complex, but overall more
efficient, query. His response is always, "Wow I didn't know you could do
that."
The word that needs to be heard is that a real SQL database is easier than a
simplistic SQL-like environment such as MySQL. I have tried several projects
with MySQL and have never been able to finish them with it, because MySQL is
just too limited.
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