SQLi Import is a nice eZ Publish extension that allows you to develop data importers in a quick and elegant way. Sadly, it comes only with MySQL support, but it takes only a minute to make it work with Oracle too. So here’s the SQL code I’ve used to make it happy 🙂 (tested with …
Tag: oracle
Is MySQL bad for (open source) software quality?
I think so. Why? Because it’s basically a toy DBMS with too many non-standard behaviours. A lot of open source projects choose MySQL mainly because it’s widely available among hosting providers, while better RDBMS like PostgreSQL1 are hard to find. The real problem is, a lot of open source developer know very little about SQL …