Sunday, April 3, 2011

MS SQL 2000 or MySQL 5.0 ?

Which one would you choose for a small ASP.NET 2.0 web site with little traffic? I have no experience with either of them, but my provider wants me to choose one. In fact, I have no experience in ASP.NET too, I am just starting to learn, using VS2008 Professional.

Thank you, Petr

From stackoverflow
  • Use MS SQL, it has better support in Visual Studio, so it will be easier for you to learn. Laso, check if you can get MS SQL 2005 or 2008.

  • From a performance standpoint, it's probably not going to matter on a site with little traffic. In your case, I would chose SQL 2000 simply because it will probably integrate better with ASP.NET than MySQL would.

    If you had said you were creating the site in PHP, I would have told you to go with MySQL though for the same reason - PHP integrates very well with MySQL.

    They are both great databases, it's just a matter of which works better in your particular situation. That would be SQL 2000 in your case.

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