RE: MySQL vs. Oracle (not speed)

[Aron Pilhofer]

I'm sorry, but are you and I reading the same thread here? :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Serge Paquin [mailto:serge@stripped]
> Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 12:01 PM
> To: Mark Matthews
> Cc: mary.stickney@stripped; mysql@stripped
> Subject: Re: MySQL vs. Oracle (not speed)
> 
> 
> I think this is a touch on the negative side.  I'm sure many 
> people get soured on MySQL when they to a post here and get 
> yelled at for not trying hard enough.  It sounds like Mary is 
> having a valid problem.  Her query works fast in one database and 
> slow in the other.  Because she did not come out and put her 
> table schema and sql in the first email is no reason to insult 
> her.  I think a helping hand is a better approach.  Mabey a 
> couple general suggestions on MySQL tuning and a "We would need 
> to see the schema and SQL statement to help further".  I agree 
> that it seems very strange that MS-SQL runs fater than MySQL on a 
> query.  Microsoft seems to always be plaiged with performance 
> problems.  Insulting someone will not help convert them to MySQL 
> it will drive people away.
> 
> Anyway enough of my rant...
> 
> Serge.
> 
> On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 09:46:44 -0500
> "Mark Matthews" <mmatthew@stripped> wrote:
> 
> > Mary Stickney wrote:
> > > What exactly is Trolling....
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I find MYSQL to be slow , sorry if that doesn't met with your 
> approval.
> > 
> > But you don't give examples.
> > 
> > I've found MS-SQL to be slow at times, especially when used from JDBC, 
> > but I don't make crack comments about it newsgroups without backing up 
> > my claims.
> > 
> > Why don't you show us your queries? Do you really care to learn 
> if MySQL 
> > could be faster and you're just using it wrong?
> > 
> > 	-Mark
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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