http://www.lamp2lapo.com/2006/09/20/moving-to-oracle/ Helping PHP developers migrate from MySQL to Oracle Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:51:32 +0000 http://www.orablog.org/?v=0.3+ http://www.lamp2lapo.com/2006/09/20/moving-to-oracle/#comment-634 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:11:13 +0000 http://www.lamp2lapo.com/2006/09/20/moving-to-oracle/#comment-634 Wrong choice. Go for PostgreSQL: it is already as fast as Oracle, no arbitrary limits, it is soon to be even faster, no need to pay for lots of options, much more standards-compliant, and it is much more featured about programming — think PL/PSM, boolean data types, PL/Scheme, PL/Java, PL/Ruby, PL/bash, PL/Python — and have I mentioned it is fast, it is free software, and enables great programming? Wrong choice. Go for PostgreSQL: it is already as fast as Oracle, no arbitrary limits, it is soon to be even faster, no need to pay for lots of options, much more standards-compliant, and it is much more featured about programming — think PL/PSM, boolean data types, PL/Scheme, PL/Java, PL/Ruby, PL/bash, PL/Python — and have I mentioned it is fast, it is free software, and enables great programming?

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