I work for a large .NET/MSSQL house here in Sydney and we need to easily move to an open dbms system. If anyone from Postgres is around could they comment on this blog and organize a quick discussion with me? I really need your brains guys!
I’m not a honkin’ great DB guru or anything, I just use PostgreSQL for a couple of interal things, and have put Postgres up against MS-SQL a couple of times for *others* to develop against. Most of the trouble they had was political.
PostgreSQL tries to be a little Oracle, and MS-SQL tries to be a little Oracle, so between them they’re a lot closer in many ways than is at first obvious.
One thing which helps *some* people (depends on presonality & application) is to distance themselves via the interface, working through ODBC or whatever initially, and only connecting directly when the fluff has been blown aside.
…also, this is not exactly local, but I’m looking at living over in Forster (a tad north of Newcastle) later this year, which will make communicating easier if you have tools or techniques you’d like toyed with in earnest.
Hey. I’m the guy who ran the PostgreSQL miniconf. I wont be at the conference on Friday but if you’re around town we could meet up and have a chat.
Hey Leon, if your moving this way it would be awesome to finally meet and have a chat!
Might drop you an email tomorrow and we can discuss.
Cheers!
If it goes ahead, it will be here. Not so easy to get to, but eye-poppingly pretty & peaceful. Bring your surfboard & camera for any “Hello Jim” occasion. (-:
Give MySQL a go - lots of features, speed, reliability and flexibility. also migration toolkit for helping with migrations from other RDBMS.
(wow, that sounded a bit marketing didn’t it - sorry).
Yeah, but MySQL has no support whatever for TSQL storedprocs.
Apparently Postgres has at least some support.
Hey,
While we aren’t PostgreSQL guys, we do lots of projects that use PostgreSQL. Swing by the Catalyst stand this afternoon for a chat if you have time.