Hi Rod,

I agreed with that assessment. My point was that MySQL is not the only option. I pointed out FireBird which is a far better choice. I assumed that Mark's point was not so much that MySQL was the only option, but that he was using it as an example to make a point.

Alan

>Hi Alan
> Actually MySQL falls way short of the mark in many areas.
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>Here's a short list of stuff missing: Triggers, Views, Cursors, Stored Procs.
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>Here's another list: you cant do hot backups of the database. You can if you use InnoDB but their hot backup costs around 1000.00
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>You dont have any type of analysis services (Data Warehouse stuff)
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>You dont have an agent for scheduling jobs.
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>And the list goes on....
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>MySQL is far from free. Heck their minimum support package is around 1500 for e-mail support. You can buuy the sql server support page for 2000 which includes 12 phone calls.
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>MySQL does have its place but it is not in the enterprise yet.
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>Rodman