Patrick Giagnocavo

If you were to log in, you'd be able to get more information on your fellow community member.

Static Page Comments

• July 4, 1998, on Choosing a Relational Database:

  What about the gratis/Free/low-cost databases such as PostgresSQL, mySQL and mSQL? What's the received wisdom on PHP3? OK, PostgreSQL = full featured but heavy. Think of it as a full size truck. Totally free. A bonus: AOLserver (www.aolserver.com) which all of Phil's examples are written for, claims to support it. They have recently added much more support for the SQL standard. MySQL = cheap, lightweight, very fast. Think Saab 900 Turbo. However it does not have all the features of PostrgreSQL - for instance, it cannot do subselects. No AOLserver driver either. mSQL = people tend to be moving away from this to MySQL. PHP3 is getting closer to being wonderful. Currently it is very well supported, very active development, very widely used. Version 3 added support for persistent DBMS connections, which increases speed and reduces the overhead of starting a DB connection for each DB operation.
  Are any of these su...