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

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3. About Me Blog: www.SqlAsylum.com Twitter: @SqlAsylum
11 years working with SQL
MS MVP 2006,2007
PASS Board member 2007,2008
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4. About Me
10 years of MySQL, Linux, PHP and Perl
Avid road and mtn biker
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5. How we use SQL/MySQL
MySQL - OLTP store
SQL Server – DW/BI/Reporting

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

7. 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

8. SQL Server
Support
Support directly from MS
CAT team

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

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

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

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

13. 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.

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

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

16. Winner?
It Depends

17. Questions?