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Re: Is MySQL becoming less open source? Test cases go internal now

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Post by Evbn » Sat, Aug 18, 2012, 4:27 AM UTC

koko775 wrote: post #2

So basically, the Java strategy. Killing the alternatives through creating compatibility uncertainty. Oh, man. This doesn't bode well. I hope this drives developers towards using and improving Postgres, but, well, who knows. One can dream! More likely is that it may drive people towards Percona, which I have on good word is a solid professional MySQL branch...or, like Java, people will just stick with the brand. :/ E…

No one involved with mySQL needs pgsql to improve, they just need a couple of days to learn pg config. Pgsql is already a much more sophisticated and debugged database.

Re: Is MySQL becoming less open source? Test cases go internal now

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Post by nantes » Sat, Aug 18, 2012, 5:09 AM UTC

sandGorgon wrote: post #34

Does someone know of a really good (performance + corner cases) migration tool for MySql - > Postgres. It looks like there are a ton of roll-your-own, but none as good as, say, "git svn clone"

I can't really speak to performance or corner cases outside of our (admittedly small) needs, but one of our developers had good luck with mysql2postgres -- https://github.com/maxlapshin/mysql2postgres/

Re: Is MySQL becoming less open source? Test cases go internal now

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Post by LyndsySimon » Wed, Aug 22, 2012, 8:15 PM UTC

taligent wrote: post #22

mgkimsal wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or you could, you know, learn multiple things, because very few companies that need scalability are best served by doing everything in only one technology. Or, for that matter, hiring people who only know one technology. There's a hell of a lot of useful stuff to learn (practical and theoretical) from relational databases. NoSQL has some useful ideas too. However, advocating that someone wanting to be considered a "d…

Funny that you chose to reply to me instead of the parent. Learning just PostgreSQL is also poor advice. Most DBAs will already know Oracle and MySQL and my point was that they would be much better advised learning a NoSQL database. Of course if you're a new DBA you should learn a relational database I just fail to see why on earth anybody would recommend PostgreSQL over Oracle/MySQL which are far, far, more popular.

To be clear, I did not advocate learning only anything.

If you aren't interested in learning about MongoDB, MySQL, DB2, and stack of brittle punch cards, you're probably not cut out to be an IT professional in the first place.