Gauthier, Dave wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone:
>
> Tomorrow, I will need to present to a group of managers (who know
> nothing about DBs) why I chose to use PG over MySQL in a project,
> MySQL being the more popular DB choice with other engineers, and
> managers fearing things that are “different” (risk). I have a few hard
> tecnical reasons (check constraint, deferred constraint checking,
> array data type), but I’m looking for a “it’s more reliable” reasons.
> Again, the audience is managers. Is there an impartial, 3^rd party
> evaluation of the 2 DBs out there that identifies PG as being more
> reliable? It might mention things like fewer incidences of corrupt
> tables/indexes, fewer deamon crashes, better recovery after system
> crashes, etc... ?
>
let me just say this one word about that.
ORACLE
i think its a pretty safe assumption that Oracle will not be good for MySQL.