Re: Oracle vs MS SQL vs MySQL

Brian, To echo your other replies, there is always a trade-off between cost, ease of mainenance, usability, and functionality. PHP seems to go quite hand-in-hand with MySQL, despite some limitations. I'd take a look at the MySQL site and see first if you can live with those limitations. Ive been living in an ASP/Access world for the past year, for mostly "light" internet and intranet applications. Due to the mainfame side of our IS dept. and the fact that we have a Data Adminstration dept. that is dedicated to IBM's DB2, we are required to use the DB2 UDB database (a DB2 server on PC, if you will) for future development. Best I can say here to anyone is "stay away"! My vote is with MySql, unless you'vegot to do triggers, sub-selects, or views, or simply have to create work for a pre-existing DBA.... Phil J. "Brian.J.Mauter" wrote: > 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