Comments on: What data types does your innovative storage engine NOT support? http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/09/29/what-data-types-does-your-innovative-storage-engine-not-support/ Stay curious! Thu, 02 May 2013 12:36:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Log Buffer #164: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs | Pythian Group Blog http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/09/29/what-data-types-does-your-innovative-storage-engine-not-support/#comment-17064 Log Buffer #164: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs | Pythian Group Blog Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:14:23 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=1315#comment-17064 [...] Bradford, asked, what data types does your innovative storage engine NOT support? “For example, Infobright’s documentation shows a list of every data type supported. [...]

]]> By: Sheeri K. Cabral http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/09/29/what-data-types-does-your-innovative-storage-engine-not-support/#comment-17048 Sheeri K. Cabral Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:49:11 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=1315#comment-17048 Baron — I completely agree!

Of course, one of the issues is “against what version of MySQL do they compare?”

Granted, data types are pretty set these days, but spatial indexes are relatively new….

Honestly, a better guide would be “how to migrate” — you’ll have to change data types to migrate, and it would point out other differences as well.

(BTW, this is why I wrote about MySQL’s data and index types comparing them to the SQL standard (ANSI/SQL2003) in the MySQL Administrator’s Bible — just having a list of data types doesn’t help a DBA who knows Oracle figure out what’s “missing”!)

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