[Gllug] Introductions to Databases

[Richard Huxton]

Grzegorz Jaskiewicz wrote:
> On 17 Jul 2009, at 15:14, Sean Burlington wrote:
> 
>> I've also found that many web developers have only ever used MySQL and
>> they just aren't aware of what's odd about it - if you were to put  
>> them
>> on another database they would carry on wring SQL as before ...

> That would be because it is the most widely available on hosting  
> sites. If you start looking for cheap hosting, with postgresql, say -  
> under 10 quid a month. It is impossible to find one.
> On contrary, nearly all cheap hosting sites have mysql in standard  
> package ..

Of course, what they probably want is a proper object-database to just 
serialise their application objects. A bit like fusion though, efficient 
reliable cross-platform object databases always seem to be "just around 
the corner"

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   Richard Huxton
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