[Info-vax] Should Oracle buy OpenVMS?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <49efc743$0$90271$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
	Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
> Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> In article <49ee7768$0$90272$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
>> 	Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>>> Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing wrote:
>>>> I'd heard it was pushing up into the high-end web space, although presumably
>>>> more for things like high-speed display of data (news aggregation, etc) than
>>>> for transaction-dependent things directly involving money.
>>> MySQL show up a lot pf places. It is actually an OK database.
>> 
>> Database experts would likely disagree.  Thankfully, we dropped it here
>> in favor of Postgres.  Specifically because it lacked certain features
>> of real databases that needed to be taught and couldn't with MySQL.
> 
> What features?

I am not a database expert so I could be wrong but one thing that I
seem to remember was someting called "constraints"  and some kind of
"integrity".  There were a number of things that real databases had
that MySQL not only didn't have but had no intention of adding.

bill

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