Re: MySQL versus Postgres

From: Torsten Zühlsdorff <foo(at)meisterderspiele(dot)de>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: MySQL versus Postgres
Date: 2010-08-06 13:13:32
Message-ID: i3h1ps$d51$1@news.eternal-september.org
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John Gage schrieb:

> On reflection, I think what is needed is a handbook that features cut
> and paste code to do the things with Postgres that people do today with
> MySQL.

Everyone of my trainees want such thing - for databases, for other
programming-languages etc. It's the worst thing you can give them. The<
will copy, they will paste and they will understand nothing. Learning is
the way to understanding, not copying.

Greetings,
Torsten
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verschiedenen Datenbanksystemen abstrahiert,
Queries von Applikationen trennt und automatisch die Query-Ergebnisse
auswerten kann.

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