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So it isn't true anymore that quickly growing companies often need to go from one of the open source DBs to Oracle, after a decade or so? (OK OK, that is a goo

by berntb 10y ago

So it isn't true anymore that quickly growing companies often need to go from one of the open source DBs to Oracle, after a decade or so? (OK OK, that is a good problem to have.) Right now I miss Oracle. (Never thought I'd say that. :-) )

wvenable 10y ago
It's highly unlikely you could ever use generic enough SQL to go from open source DB or Oracle. Best case you wouldn't be getting the best performance out of your open source database and then you wouldn't be getting the best performance out of Oracle. It's better to build for the platform you have than build for a mythical common platform that contains the minimum features of syntax of all of other DBMS (which probably doesn't exist). If you change DB platforms, you're just going to have to rebuild.
- berntb 10y ago
  OK, your point is not that DB changes won't happen -- but that there is no use to prepare and think about it beforehand. Sounds reasonable to me.
  - Can_Not 10y ago
    Kind of like premature optimization, "premature compatibility" can be a performance/labour-hours killer.