Comments on: Experience lags adoption: Why Oracle and SQL DBAs probably want to learn MySQL

By: Charles Schultz

Charles Schultz — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:16:49 +0000

I just stumbled upon this entry; Curious, how have things changed in the past 1.5 years? It has been interesting hearing how Facebook has been using mySql, and I am personally finding the technology exciting. What I love most about it is that it is EASY. Something Oracle has buried in its ancient past.

By: Log Buffer #82: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

Log Buffer #82: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:53:27 +0000

[...] gap” (something pointed out by Pythian’s Paul VallÃ©e in an older post called Experience lags adoption: Why Oracle and SQL DBAs probably want to learn MySQL). Farhan writes, “A CTO of a large company confided in me. . . that they are [...]

By: The Open Conspiracy » Blog Archive » » Example A

The Open Conspiracy » Blog Archive » » Example A — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:42:57 +0000

[...] came across this a really interesting article on MYsql adoption in the [...]

By: Paul Vallee

Paul Vallee — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:55:45 +0000

Jeremy Cole has some interesting observations and takes on this phenomenon as well.

By: Log Buffer #60: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs · Steve Karam · The Oracle Alchemist

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:03:11 +0000

[...] Are you considering being a MySQL DBA that was once an Oracle DBA yourself? An article by Paul Vallee explains to us why Oracle and SQL Server DBAs probably want to learn MySQL. [...]

By: Gints Plivna

Gints Plivna — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:10:29 +0000

Khe khe it is very interesting to add www.microsoft.com to alexa's graph. As a result Oracle's and MySQL traffic lines are almost invisible ;)

By: How MySQL snuck up on us « I’m just a simple DBA on a complex production system

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 03:05:00 +0000

[...] and we have the world of Oracle and Netapp. Paul Vallee of Pythian made an excellent case of why Oracle DBAs should start learning MySQL, but I kind of suspect that once the organization got used to free databases, they may be a bit [...]