>>I am interested in learning, and perhaps applying, Client-Server. Is MySQL recommended for this? Any serious limitations compared to more expensive systems, like Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server?
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>MySQL lacks transactions and stored procs (until v4, at least).
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>PostgreSQL, on the other hand, is also free and has those features. For a project I'm working on, we required both, so MySQL was not applicable. PostgreSQL, though, works fine, although I have to adjust to the differences from using SQLServer.
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>From what I've seen, MySQL is like MSSQLServer/SyBase, while PostgreSQL operates more like Oracle.
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>HTH!
Thanks; I'll take a look at it.
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