Just wondering why anyone would want to do this. My understanding is that MySQL and PostGRES are both free and open source, and are installable on lots of platforms, and it sounds a lot harder to add support for more databases than it is to just install one of the standard ones.
Are there known performance issues that would make either of these superior in theory? I get the sense that there might be reasons to prefer Oracle, if you already are paying the license. Or is it just inertia? Dealing with an uncooperative hosting service?
I'm not a db expert so forgive me if this question shows a lack of insight about relative merits of the different RDBMS options.
On Sep 3, 2007, at 9:13 AM, zham rock wrote:
Guys - does anyone knows whether MS SQL or Sybase is supported by Mediawiki?
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