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Is Oracle killing MySQL?

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  • V Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

    Oracle seems to be having be on a killing spree after acquiring Sun (and hence MySQL which was acquired by Sun). The latest two versions of MySQL for Windows have serious issues in Setup Configuration Wizard. 1) It can not seamlessly cleanup the older uninstallation files and/or overwrite it gracefully. (At least can't it display a graceful message?) 2) It throws an error like 'authentication_string' can not have a default value. And this seems to be a newer bug introduced by Oracle-MySQL team (http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=59038[^])

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    I fail to see why Oracle would want to keep MySQL alive.

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    • V Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

      Oracle seems to be having be on a killing spree after acquiring Sun (and hence MySQL which was acquired by Sun). The latest two versions of MySQL for Windows have serious issues in Setup Configuration Wizard. 1) It can not seamlessly cleanup the older uninstallation files and/or overwrite it gracefully. (At least can't it display a graceful message?) 2) It throws an error like 'authentication_string' can not have a default value. And this seems to be a newer bug introduced by Oracle-MySQL team (http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=59038[^])

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      Rutvik Dave
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      Oracle Support: Please use Oracle XE instead, it's also free and better than MySQL. :)

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      • V Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

        Oracle seems to be having be on a killing spree after acquiring Sun (and hence MySQL which was acquired by Sun). The latest two versions of MySQL for Windows have serious issues in Setup Configuration Wizard. 1) It can not seamlessly cleanup the older uninstallation files and/or overwrite it gracefully. (At least can't it display a graceful message?) 2) It throws an error like 'authentication_string' can not have a default value. And this seems to be a newer bug introduced by Oracle-MySQL team (http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=59038[^])

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          Oracle Support: Please use Oracle XE instead, it's also free and better than MySQL. :)

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          Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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          Not sure XE has a same licensing for products?

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          • V Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

            Not sure XE has a same licensing for products?

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            Yes, you can use it for commercial purpose, the only restriction is the database size < 10 GB. and if you have bigger database then you are not looking for free database anyways. :)

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              Bitchy, bitchy...

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              • V Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

                Oracle seems to be having be on a killing spree after acquiring Sun (and hence MySQL which was acquired by Sun). The latest two versions of MySQL for Windows have serious issues in Setup Configuration Wizard. 1) It can not seamlessly cleanup the older uninstallation files and/or overwrite it gracefully. (At least can't it display a graceful message?) 2) It throws an error like 'authentication_string' can not have a default value. And this seems to be a newer bug introduced by Oracle-MySQL team (http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=59038[^])

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                Probably just incompetence on Oracle's part. MySQL will carry on: http://netahead.info/blog/index.php?entry=CHhnjFDN[^]

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                  Never work for a squirrel-eater. They are probably mad[^].

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                  • V Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

                    Oracle seems to be having be on a killing spree after acquiring Sun (and hence MySQL which was acquired by Sun). The latest two versions of MySQL for Windows have serious issues in Setup Configuration Wizard. 1) It can not seamlessly cleanup the older uninstallation files and/or overwrite it gracefully. (At least can't it display a graceful message?) 2) It throws an error like 'authentication_string' can not have a default value. And this seems to be a newer bug introduced by Oracle-MySQL team (http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=59038[^])

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                    Isn't it obvious?

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                    • V Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

                      Oracle seems to be having be on a killing spree after acquiring Sun (and hence MySQL which was acquired by Sun). The latest two versions of MySQL for Windows have serious issues in Setup Configuration Wizard. 1) It can not seamlessly cleanup the older uninstallation files and/or overwrite it gracefully. (At least can't it display a graceful message?) 2) It throws an error like 'authentication_string' can not have a default value. And this seems to be a newer bug introduced by Oracle-MySQL team (http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=59038[^])

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                      The original authors of MySQL are striking back with a new product - MariaDB. That said, I have yet to look at it, but it claimns to recapture the spirit of MySQL

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                      • V Vasudevan Deepak Kumar

                        Oracle seems to be having be on a killing spree after acquiring Sun (and hence MySQL which was acquired by Sun). The latest two versions of MySQL for Windows have serious issues in Setup Configuration Wizard. 1) It can not seamlessly cleanup the older uninstallation files and/or overwrite it gracefully. (At least can't it display a graceful message?) 2) It throws an error like 'authentication_string' can not have a default value. And this seems to be a newer bug introduced by Oracle-MySQL team (http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=59038[^])

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                        Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote:

                        The latest two versions of MySQL for Windows have serious issues in Setup Configuration Wizard

                        Are they using the Oracle installer?

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