As I have posted before, I am converting some applications from Oracle to MySQL at work. MySQL's price tag of $5K per server won out over Oracle's price tage of $70K+ per server.
The conversion is tough. I am having a difficult time getting used to MySQL's exception handling. To make matters worse, the Oracle code that I am converting is extensively filled with dbms_output( ) calls that are used for debugging.
And I have become far too dependent on the ability to step through and debug a stored procedure in PL/SQL Developer.
So challenges abound. More on this later.