Published September 25th, 2006
in Migration.
One of the major items to note when converting an application from using MySQL to Oracle is the way in which column names are handled. Generally MySQL returns column names lowercased and Oracle generally returns column names uppercased.
Notice the keyword in both cases being ‘generally’. As with most things to do with MySQL and Oracle everything is not always as easy as it seems.
Published September 20th, 2006
in General.
One of the most frustrating things about being a small company in 1999 was not having a decent database at an affordable price. Oracle and DB2 were too expensive so we were left with MySQL and PostgreSQL. Postgres was reliable in those days but rather slow. MySQL was extremely fast but left out some basic […]
