[iamcreasy]

This semester I am taking a DBMS course and the instructor works at one of NASA's NSSDCA center in South Dakota.

He mentioned in that class that, this NSSDCA center is in the process of moving away from Oracle to PostgreSQL. The transfer process is going on for over 2 years.

Even the book we are following changed their focus from Oracle to MySQL from recent edition.

[chris_wot]

I'd be asking the lecturer to change yo a different textbook...

[iamcreasy]

What's wrong with the current book?

This is what we are reading : Database Systems: Design, Implementation, & Management 11th Edition

[chris_wot]

Anything that uses MySQL as a teaching example is just plain wrong.

[brianwawok]

Why? It demos the basic concepts fine. Maybe they can use MariaDB instead?

[chris_wot]

It also encourages students to use MySQL. If they were concerned with cost, they should have just picked Postgres.