RE: [PHP-DB] Oracle vs MS SQL vs MySQL

You may also want to explore Virtuoso http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/ It has all the Enterprise database features that Florian mentions, installs in a very small footprint, and is significantly lower priced (free for a 2 user connection). Best regards, Andrew -------------------------------------- Andrew Hill - OpenLink Software Director Technology Evangelism Universal Data Access Integration http://www.openlinksw.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Florian Clever [mailto:clever@ukl.uni-freiburg.de] > Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 7:07 AM > To: php-db@lists.php.net; maute001@bama.ua.edu > Subject: [PHP-DB] Oracle vs MS SQL vs MySQL > > > Hi > > I have used Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL, ADABAS and MS Access. > > For small projects my preference is MySQL with PHP on *nix and MS Access > with ASP on Win32. > > For more complex projects requiring complicated calculations or projects > with a lot of data Oracle is the best choice, because it is the most > powerfull and flexible. However if it is too expensive choose MSSQL or > ADABAS depending on which plattform you use. > > I enjoy working with Oracle the most, because you can do really cool > things. Load Java objects as stored procedures, have stored procedures > return cursors etc and the best of all you can basically come up with > any kind of usefull SQL statement and it will work. That is not the case > with the others. > > So in case licensing is not an issue and you have Oracle DBAs, thus you > do not have to worry about administration, which is not exactly trivial, > choose Oracle. > > Florian > > >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 > -- > > Florian Clever > > fc@clever-soft.com > http://www.Clever-Software-Solutions.de/ > > PGP Key @ ldap://certserver.pgp.net/ > > "Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. > Then do it. " -- Robert A. Heinlein > > -- > 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 > >