Pat Wright & Kris Davey 09-10-11 MySQL VS SQL Server Pat Wright & Kris Davey 09-10-11 SQL Saturday #94 Salt Lake City

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How we use SQL/MySQL MySQL - OLTP store SQL Server – DW/BI/Reporting

SQL Server Administration Mature Gui tools Abundant 3rd party offerings Direct integration to windows to administer across the whole environment

MySQL Replication Master / Slave Model True Multiple Master Easy to set up Slaves can differ from Master Slave process is single threaded Third party vendors (and 5.6) support multithreaded slaves

SQL Server Support Support directly from MS CAT team

MySQL Engines Many Engines for flexible solutions InnoDB MyISAM Memory Archive Blackhole CSV Engines types can differ through replication

SQL Server Index management Index Creation Missing Indexes/Gather Index stats

MySQL Platforms Platform Independent Runs on Linux/Unix, Windows, OSX, Solaris

Engine SQL Server Great for the 98% of workloads out there Great engine tools for visibility

MySQL Cost MySQL is extensible by anyone with the tools to do so. Percona, Drizzle, MariaDB Drivers It’s easy to connect to MySQL from any platform.

User Management SQL Server Mature Gui tools Easy setup Integration with AD/Windows domain

MySQL Open Source Platform Independent Runs on Linux/Unix, Windows, OSX, Solaris

Winner? It Depends

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