Why Move to MySQL from Microsoft SQL Server?

 
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Old 05-04-2009
Why Move to MySQL from Microsoft SQL Server?

Before we get started, let me say that I always liked being a SQL Server DBA. My database experience started with DB2, then Teradata, followed by Oracle, and then SQL Server (and then a little bit of Sybase after that, followed by MySQL). Coming from the other databases, I found SQL Server the easiest and quickest to learn at the time, but of course, a lot of that had to do with the fact that Microsoft was really the only database vendor around then (I started with version 4.2 of SQL Server) that shipped any decent GUI management tools with their server. Take the tools away, and you basically had Sybase on Windows with the ISQL command line tool, which was not pretty by any means.

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mysql_unbuffered_query - Send an SQL query to MySQL without fetching and buffering the result rows.

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