>I'm aware of that....
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>Bottom line is, you move to MYSQL and you lose many of the T-SQL 05 Programming constructs. MySQL doesn't come close to SQL Server or SQL Server Express when it comes to the ANSI-99 standard. And when you look at what SQL has in store for 2008 (Table types, improvements in GROUP BY extensions, etc), there's really no contest as to which product is better for DB programming.

Single something out where one product is "superior" to the other, then make that point all important...do i see a trend here ?