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- centinall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13perhaps their existing database is DB2, and they would like to use Drupal?
- bpevans, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9But isn't it nice to have that option if you're a Drupal user?
Better to have and not need than to need and not have. And It's not as though the effort came out of Drupal's resources.
It may be useful to shops with DB2 dba skillsets where they don't want yet another dbms to manage internally.
Perhaps a simple "thanks IBM" is in order? - kunalthakar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8IBM developerworks is probably the coolest technical reference site out there. IBM (or rather, the site contributors) have been doing great work in writing articles about all kinds of technical topics.
- tehmoth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/dm-0606khatri/ shows me lots of reasons to be using DB2 Express-C instead of MySQL, but not instead of PostgreSQL. The whole point of DB Express-C seems to be to compete in the MySQL/PostgreSQL space, so this code effort is not for people with existing DB2 databases, but for helping to convince people to switch.
- Sven2000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It seems to me that Drupal is the fast growing OS CMS. It looks quite interesting to me. Does anyone have information on how it does compare to Joomla or Typo3? The main reason that attracts me at Drupal is that it seems to be managable to build valid xhtml css-based layouts...
- FusionGyro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Drupal's PostgreSQL support is highly exaggerated. Their database "abstraction" layer just passes the SQL right on over to the database, which means every plugin developer has to use database agnostic SQL. Last time I was playing with it, the majority of the plugins used MySQL-only crap like "REPLACE INTO." It also depended on whether the plugin developer had bothered to create a PostgreSQL database layout SQL file, which was no problem for me but would have turned off a non-developer.
- eaton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, the pgsql support needs love. Drupal core's pgsql support is high-priority, but the relatively low number of people with pgsql test systems means that the majority of module developers consider it out-of-sight, out-of-mind.
There's discussion now about making a more generalized table defintion system, so that module developers wouldn't have to write their own schema creation/update scripts per RDBS, but that doesn't solve the problem of contrib develpers using MYSQL specific functions.
That said, I haven't run into that many modules using funky stuff like REPLACE INTO. More frequently it's minor stuff like putting quotes around integers, etc. - robertDouglass, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Saying that the majority of modules use REPLACE INTO is highly exaggerated. A quick grep of the contributions repository reveals 15 modules out of nearly 400 that use REPLACE INTO, and most of the 15 are either completely obsolete or total crap. A couple notable exceptions exist.
- tehmoth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1at least it "supports" it, unlike lots of other open source web applications for whom the whole world is a MySQL database running on Linux. MySQL: the Access of the Open Source Database world.
- Modulo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@tehmoth: wait, so what are you saying, that IBM is trying to influence people to use their products? TEH HORRORZ!! TEH HORRORZ!!
- bean1975, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There is an ongoing Oracle support effort, I would start from http://groups.drupal.org/taxonomy/term/748
- PerfectReign, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hey, this is highly cool simply due to the fact that the Big Blue is giving street creds to another OSS project. Though I can't see my web host ever deciding to support DB/2 over MySQL, this might be better for the suits out there (like me) who have to come to the table supporting a piece of software with some corporate backing.
/me likes! - bshensky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0My task: Using the PostgreSQL stuffs to create a working Oracle interface. Then we could finally put Oracle Portal out of our collective mind.
I can wish, can't I? - orangekid13, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Cool, my dad's code is in there... He works at ibm, used to work on db2 but they moved him to another department, forget what he does now.
anyways he makes 15k/mo and gives me $1520/mo for college and all that
neener neener - naros, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1I don't understand while anybody is going to use DB2 for something like Drupal, there is no direct benefit over MySQL over PostgreSQL in this case.
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