Whats your favorite database? Mine is MySQL due to the fact that it is free and can handle quite large databases. Whats yours and why?
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zollet posted this at 23:08 — 18th July 2002.
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MySQL has been very good to us so far.
mairving posted this at 00:58 — 19th July 2002.
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MySQL for the price and scalability can't be beat.
ROB posted this at 08:42 — 19th July 2002.
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Access
andy206uk posted this at 09:36 — 19th July 2002.
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Access? you having a laugh aintcha? Access was designed for offline databases, just like Frontpage is a bloated web design package, Access is a bloated database program!
MySql every time!
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Peter J. Boettcher posted this at 14:00 — 19th July 2002.
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I'll agree with Mairving that for price MySQL can't be beat but it can't compete for scalability yet with the big boys (Oracle/SQL Server/etc).
While Access definitely isn't great for the web it is hardly a "bloated" database program. It's a great program for people who are database newbies to get comfortable with how databases work.
My fav is SQL Server 2000 because I use it all the time and I love:
1) Stored Procs
2) User defined functions
3) HTTP Template Queries (XML)
4) Ease of use, yet powerful
Whatever you might think about Microsoft, SQL Server 2000 is a great RDBMS.
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ROB posted this at 18:17 — 19th July 2002.
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I was kidding about Access (note the smiley
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I'd have to say MySql also, but my experience is limited to MySql, PostgreSql, Access and FoxPro. I'm sure some or all of the enterprise databases like Oracle, Sybase, MS Sql etc would be at the top of my list if i had access to them or experience with them.
Mark Hensler posted this at 02:16 — 20th July 2002.
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I worked with M$ SQL 7 for a while. Loved it. Right now, I'm limited to mySQL. Those would be my two picks. Unless, of course, someone would bye me a copy of Oracle!
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zollet posted this at 02:46 — 20th July 2002.
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Yeah, let's sell our houses, cars, etc and buy an Oracle licence. Then we can all sit in a corner in an alley somewhere with the Oracle box in the middle. It would be our god.
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mjames posted this at 20:03 — 20th July 2002.
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MySQL because of its open source, free nature. Also, I haven't played with Sybase or Oracle yet, but those are more commercial solutions for corporations, IMO.
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ROB posted this at 21:22 — 21st July 2002.
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LOL, sounds like a plan