From: Martijn Tonies Date: February 1 2010 9:36am Subject: Re: 50 things to know before migrating from Oracle to MySQL List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/220517 Message-Id: <00c501caa322$17d94150$6101a8c0@martijnws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Tom, >> I noticed the article didn't say how much money you'll save by not paying >> through the nose for Oracle per server licensing, the cost of upgrading >> your hardware to get some speed out of Oracle, or the cost of having to >> hire one or more Oracle administrators to manage and tweak the database. > > how much does an oracle programmer who can maintain your queries with more > than 61 joins cost, in, say, usd/hr? Views :-) With regards, Martijn Tonies Upscene Productions http://www.upscene.com Download Database Workbench for Oracle, MS SQL Server, Sybase SQL Anywhere, MySQL, InterBase, NexusDB and Firebird! Database questions? Check the forum: http://www.databasedevelopmentforum.com