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SQL Server express edition took some market from MySQL.
MS did the right thing when released such a product.
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We use SQL Server 2005 for internal applications, but I mostly interface with third party products. One uses SQL Server 2000, another uses Caché (which we would never select ourselves) (it's not even a recent version!), we just stopped using a product that uses Ingres, and yet another product uses MySql.
So my code has to be fairly database agnostic.
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This is like asking a group of republicans if they would prefer Hillary, or Mccain.
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We ran this survey a few years ago and I based the options on what we saw there.
We are, after all, a Microsoft centric site.
It's interesting to see MySQL doing so well though.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
CodeProject.com : C++ MVP
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Why are there only SQL*Server versions mentioned and not Oracle version?
The list could also include Oracle 7, Oracle 8, Oracle 9, Oracle 10 and Oracle 11.
Patje
Enjoy life, this is not a rehearsal !!!
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Don't forget the light version as well. CP is kind of blind to non-MS kool-aid though.
Need a C# Consultant? I'm available.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway
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I'm not sure you propose the right Sqlite, here is a link to the widely used sqlite (embeddable, like what we do in php for example), public domain licensed:
http://sqlite.org/[^]
And the postgresql site (for the spelling):
http://www.postgresql.org/[^]
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Sqlite DO have server implementations, and quite a few!
1. http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/SQLite_Server.aspx[^]
2. uSQLiteServer and Client (http://users.iol.it/irwin/)
3. SQLite ODBC Driver (http://www.ch-werner.de/sqliteodbc/)
4. SQLiteDBMS (http://sqlitedbms.sourceforge.net/)
5. SQLiteDbServer (http://www.terrainformatica.com/sqlitedbserver/)
Regards,
unruledboy (at) gmail (dot) com
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I was vote number 100 for the MySQL.
I want to learn SQL Server eventually, but I had to start somewhere and free was a good nudge in MySQL's direction.
S.Nowlin
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The journey is straight, it's the path that is twisted. Oh and did you hear? There is no spoon, only sporks.
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 I know. But I started with MySQL before there was an express.
I'm old and I'm slow.
S.Nowlin
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The journey is straight, it's the path that is twisted. Oh and did you hear? There is no spoon, only sporks.
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I don't think you can use the term "free" for any "express" product from Microsoft. Free as in beer, maybe, in some way. But the license is rather restricted and targets mainly new comers.
Postgresql, sqlite are free, by all means. You can do whatever you like with them. Mysql is free too but the GPL may be an obstacle if you have to release your code with it (aka not a web application). But a separate license is possible.
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Database is for girls. PERIOD.
this is this.
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"Hello, this is the real world calling.
You can rejoin us anytime now, with no fees."
Software Zen: delete this;
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I had an argument with a client back in 2002 when I ran into problems writing his software and I blamed him for bad communication and he said that people like me did nothing more than adding inventory records and that we were database programmers and could not write real software.
And that was when I was just starting off with real-world programming.
I left my previous day-job because I was asked to program in .NET. If I were still working for them I would probably be making web pages right now. 
And by the way, I still do work for the same client I had in 2002 and I still do not write database software.
this is this.
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Its funny i was under the impression i was doing real programming... but i contact a database occasionally, so guess i'm just an inferrior programmer.
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ok...
what do you write software for? if you do not need a DB, fiar play. I use a database only when i need to, as it manages my data, no need to rewrite the wheel 
as the saying goes... When your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail
also with n-teir design, it does not matter what the UI is the logic and work flow should be similar, if not the same (you may have guessed i do write some web applications) 
The Student will become the Master
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The question being asked here, 'big iron' or 'free stuff' cannot be discerned by the choices. If I were to answer SQL Server 2005 how do you know which version I am using (Express vs. Enterprise/Professional/etc.)?
The same for Oracle. I happen to be using Oracle Express for now but the context of the answer does not agree with the choices to select from.
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It said "retry later" but then I get a message that I already voted.
I tried to enter "Informix" (capital "I").
I see there are already two votes for "informix" (lower case "i").
BTW: for more info on IBM IDS (Informix Dynamic Server) see
http://www.ibm.com/informix or
http://www.informix.com (redirects to the same page)
P.S
It seems they work on the free answers, now there are
4 for "Informix" and none for "informix" 
modified on Monday, January 28, 2008 4:30:09 AM
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Based on the text answers, I would say PostgreSQL is better represented here than even SQL Server 2008... It should have been on the list.
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Agree. I use PostgreSql alot.
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Yes - me too
PostgreSQL is what I normally use
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Seems that PostgreSQL users cannot agree on how to spell the product they use (look at the text answers).
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Dave19751995 wrote: Seems that PostgreSQL users cannot agree on how to spell the product they use (look at the text answers).
It's what you call PROGRESS
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