>Hello,
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>We are planning to use a MySQL database. There are very strong requirements concerning high availability in this project, therefore I was looking for comments on MySQL transaction logging and recovery.
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>Some are trying to convince us that Oracle is much more "transaction safe" than MySQL. Would that be true or is that only a misconception?
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>Thanks for your input in advance.

The version of MySQL that is used by one of the applications at my current client's site does not support transaction logging AFAIK, although it isn't a fully up-to-date version.

I have no doubt that Oracle would be safer judging from what I have seen of MySQL (I'm certainly not an expert though). It would certainly be lots more expensive anyway.

I'd look at Microsoft SQL server before Oracle unless there was a real need to spend lots more money..