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April 2007 Entries

Subtitle: Oracle vs. MySQL As I posted before, I have been tasked with converting a large block of Oracle stored procedures to MySQL. As you might expect, MySQL won out over Oracle in the "bean counter test" (accounting and administration procurement project approval) because it cost $5K vs. over $100K for Oracle. So we were basically told to use it. Opportunity cost of the extra time to learn it, code it, and the possible risks were voiced but not considered in the decision. The vast difference...

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