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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SQL::ReservedWords(3pm) 				User Contributed Perl Documentation				   SQL::ReservedWords(3pm)

NAME
SQL::ReservedWords - Reserved SQL words by ANSI/ISO SYNOPSIS
if ( SQL::ReservedWords->is_reserved( $word ) ) { print "$word is a reserved SQL word!"; } DESCRIPTION
Determine if words are reserved by ANSI/ISO SQL standard. METHODS
is_reserved( $word ) Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by either "SQL:1992", "SQL:1999" or "SQL:2003". is_reserved_by_sql1992( $word ) Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by "SQL:1992". is_reserved_by_sql1999( $word ) Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by "SQL:1999". is_reserved_by_sql2003( $word ) Returns a boolean indicating if $word is reserved by "SQL:2003". reserved_by( $word ) Returns a list with SQL standards that reserves $word. words Returns a list with all reserved words. EXPORTS
Nothing by default. Following subroutines can be exported: is_reserved is_reserved_by_sql1992 is_reserved_by_sql1999 is_reserved_by_sql2003 reserved_by words SEE ALSO
SQL::ReservedWords::DB2 SQL::ReservedWords::MySQL SQL::ReservedWords::ODBC SQL::ReservedWords::Oracle SQL::ReservedWords::PostgreSQL SQL::ReservedWords::SQLite SQL::ReservedWords::SQLServer ISO/IEC 9075:1992 Database languages -- SQL ISO/IEC 9075-2:1999 Database languages -- SQL -- Part 2: Foundation (SQL/Foundation) ISO/IEC 9075-2:2003 Database languages -- SQL -- Part 2: Foundation (SQL/Foundation) AUTHOR
Christian Hansen "chansen@cpan.org" COPYRIGHT
This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.8.8 2008-03-28 SQL::ReservedWords(3pm)