Comments on: SQL SERVER – Difference between SQL Server Express and MySQL

By: Tanni

Tanni — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:57:17 +0000

nice one

By: gori

gori — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:05:54 +0000

Awesome….. from this article my concepts are very clear about sql express and mysql.. Thank you very much.. Can you please tell me the difference among sql, mysql and oracle?..

By: BigC

BigC — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:16:06 +0000

Great article. Thank you very much.
What i can tell from my experience is that if you are working with .Net you should use MSSQL in any cases, cause it’s terrible and dangerous working with MySql and the MySql Connectors. I am sorry to say that, cause i like working with MySql too. The connectors are never uptodate and free of bugs.
MySql causes many problems using third part tools, like Telerik or authority tools like those if the IIS. So Everything counted, nothing speeks against using MySql as long as you do not work in a Microsoft environmenet.

Cheers.

By: Dave Conner

Dave Conner — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:13:45 +0000

Pinal,

FYI that SQL Express db size limit now raised to 10GB. Single CPU limitation remains, but can be used on multi-core single CPU.

By: Kevin McGinn

Kevin McGinn — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:37:43 +0000

This is a very interesting article. The difference between database servers is not always apparent. Is there a similar study that compares SQL Server 2005 or 2008 to PostgreSQL 8+ ?

By: bhanuprakash

bhanuprakash — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:55:10 +0000

hi
article is nice but there is less description about Mysql comparitive to the sqlserver

thanks and regards
bhanuprakash

By: Alexander

Alexander — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:48:49 +0000

Nice explanation…expect more on enterprise level database settings..

By: Simon Milne

Simon Milne — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:08:58 +0000

Hello,
Firstly thanks for the great article it has given a very clear explanation and is very helpful.
Secondly in answer to Patrick, if you want to move you data to SQL express and then use access as the front end this is definelty possible, and I believe quite common, the easiest way i Know of to do this is load the data into SQL using whatever method you fancy, and then once you have merged the tables you can then just link to the SQL tables from your access database, then all your code etc should just work as usual.
Hope this helps
Simon

By: DBMark

DBMark — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:22:32 +0000

As someone who’s used both, but am a fan of Mysql (as you can see from my weblink), I feel that there are two distinct areas where one database makes sense over the other. If you’re using a Microsoft environment and other Microsoft tools in your business, then SQL*Server is the optimum solution. If however you’re hosting a website on a Linux server and using PHP as your web programming language then Mysql would be your preference. In between there are a lot of considerations to which to pay attention. It’s not always a “night and day” issue. For example if you’re into Data Warehousing, Olap cubes, data mining etc then there are a lot more options available if you follow the SQL*Server route; yet there are now opensource tools such as Pentaho that are being developed in the Mysql arena. Luckily in both directions there are lots of useful resources (both on the net and in print) that will give you valuable help and guidance in utilising your database to the maximum – such as this blog. Thank you Pinal Dave!

By: Alireza

Alireza — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:00:47 +0000

Hi,
Would you please talk about the weak MySQL Query Optimizer in comparison with that of SQL Server?

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:45:54 +0000

I cannot think of any situation where I would pick SQL Server Express over MySQL.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:09:53 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to write this article.

I am currently taking a entry level database course which first utilizes Access 2008 then moving onto a more complete enterprised based DBMS. Can you merge/convert Access 2008 front end with SQL Server Management Studio express? I’ve read you can migrate the data to SQL Microsoft SQL server, I just wasn’t sure if you could use the SQL Server Management Express edition and have the same functionality.

Thanks for any replies in advance.

Patrick

By: Kuldip

Kuldip — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:02:29 +0000

Nice explanation Sir.

By: Brian Tkatch

Brian Tkatch — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:41:14 +0000

I think of MySQL as data storage with a SQL interface. I would never use it where advanced database capabilities are required.