Re: Oracle vs MS SQL vs MySQL

hehe, cute question. I think for your purposes, MySql is probably most appropriate. After all, if you can get it to do what you need, you can't beat the price of it. Re: Which database is best? This is a very long and convaluted question for which you really need to identify many criteria from which to disearn an answer. Here's a couple questions you need to answer, first: Is cost of db software licensing an issue? What capabilities does the project require? Oracle licensing can be very expensive. ... Most databases fall inbetween for price/capabilities ... Mysql has limited capabilities. Oracle might be a pain, but you'll find that true of all datbases to one extent or another. Oracle is the most capable, but comes with a heavy price tag also. For a run anywhere application, consider MySQL. A lot of ISP's can offer it, the same won't be true of Oracle, not for a long time to come.... ;-) -Joe ""Brian.J.Mauter"" <maute001@bama.ua.edu> wrote in message news:Pine.GSO.4.30.0104041922020.21495-100000@bama.ua.edu... > Hey, > > Has anyone tried out all three of these DBMS packages and evaluated them? > I was wondering what everyone is having the best luck with when writing > PHP scripts. > > I'm using Oracle8i and if you don't mind, it's a pain in the tail. :-P > > While I'm asking, let's not limit it to just those three, if anyone is > overwhelmingly pleased with something else, name it please! :-) > > Thanks, > Brian > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >