Database choosing

[Oak Norton]

Hello all, I'm a total newbie to Revolution and I have limited programming
experience.  I'm one of those people I read about in a recent post that
needs a solution so I figure out how to program it for myself.  My
experience has mostly been with cold fusion and MS-SQL/Access.  I've been
leaning toward MySQL for a cross-platform project, but from the posts on
this board I'm just about ready to look at PostgreSQL.  I know there's some
differences between all the SQL's but don't know much about what they are.
In the example below I see a bit of code which illustrated that point and
just worries me a tad because I find Access invaluable to build queries
quickly and test them out and if I didn't have to change the code at all,
that would be a big plus.  So which of the sql flavors is closest to MSSQL
and will go cross-platform?

Thanks,

Oak


> It's been my experience that if you ultimately want to move 
> to Oracle, 
> Postgresql is a better choice than mySQL because PG tries to be as 
> Oracle compatible as possible.  I can also tell you from 
> experience that 
> if you want to move to MS SQL Server later, be VERY careful 
> about your 
> SQL since there are lots of things that are incompatible even with 
> "simple" SQL statements.  For example, in Oracle/Postgres you 
> would join 
> two fields you would use something like SELECT last_name || ', ' || 
> first_name whereas in MS SQL it would be SELECT last_name + ', ' + 
> first_name (very VB like).