Re: Oracle vs. MySQL

>Anyone here have major gripes about
>mySQL that oracle solved?

I would not dream of developing without foreign keys/referential integrity. Oracle catches many of my programming mistakes as constraint errors before they mess things up and waste a lot of time. I don't get many constraint errors with my programs in fully debugged production environments, so I guess I might be able to get away without constraints there, but I generally would prefer not to take the chance as the consequences are more severe.

However, I have not tried Postgres, which I understand is free and has referential integrity.

Tim

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