Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase  (Jeff Davis <jdavis-pgsql@empires.org>)
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On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 04:35:23PM -0700, Jeff Davis wrote:
> That was my point. FirebirdSQL already provides the SQL language, so
> what does MySQL offer that FirebirdSQL doesn't?

Why, compatibility with MySQL's dialect of SQL, of course.  Who else
can accept '2005-02-30' as a date?  ;-)

A

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