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MySQL A Threat To The Big Database Vendors?
geekinexile writes: "Bloomberg is running a story on the growth of MySQL as an alternative to the big commercial database systems." The story mentions PostgreSQL as well, and presents a generally positive view of both.
Now I know everyone's going to jump down my throat with "Hey, that's going to be in 4.x.y" blah blah... these things have been in use since the stone ages, too little too late and the support still isn't on par with Sybase, MsSQL, Oracle, etc..
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--scott
Hey scott, is your last name "tiger"?
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Linux: A Threat To The Big Operating Systems Vendors ?
and
Apache: A Threat to Commercial HTTP servers ?
A free program doing certain tasks better than high priced commericial programs? This should be illegal here in the USA, don't be surprised to see corporate execs begging Congress to ban this kind of thing!
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In Latin America the big competitor is Oraple (it was made by an offshoot merger of Apple Computers and their arch nemis AW FUCK IT THIS JOKE IS GOING NO WHERE GOD MOTHERFUCKER DAMNIT!
I just cannot get enough of this simplicity:
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"MySQL Server does parse the FOREIGN KEY syntax in CREATE TABLE commands, but without further action being taken." (taken from
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/ANSI_diff_Foreign_K
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I feel so sig.
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You forgot "Europeans."
Of course MySQL is a threat to the big database vendors, Microsoft is evil!