[Inschool] Granger Christian

[Adam Williams]

>>brand the classes.  For example, I am teaching an intermediate DB class
>>using Oracle.  Actually, I am using (and strongly suggest to the
>>students) that we use MySQL.  That way, they can actually apply their
>>knowledge in the real world without having to buy Oracle.  Of course, a
>Oracle has a free versino that can run on Linux. I've got the CD around
>here someplace if you want a copy... It might not be the newest thing but
>the experience in Oracle couldn't hurt! :-)

I agree.  But in DB201.  There is plenty of information to fill a 101 that 
is entirely DB neutral.

>Also, I don't want to start a war here but why not Postgresql? 

For basic SQL one could use anything,  so whatever is easiest to setup.  
Atomicity is a very important topic (ie Transactions) on real RDBMS 
systems,  which might be hard to cover on something like mySQL.   But that 
is a niggling point.

>starting to learn SQL myself and torn between using PG or Mysql.... Just
>curious...

If your going to use it for real: PosgreSQL.  It scales.