Date: 10 May 2001 15:02:26 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Andrew Sherrod <ixkatl@yahoo.com> Cc: Jeff Eckermann <jeckermann@verio.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Oracle, Message-ID: <xzpvgn9icgt.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <20010510031456.82964.qmail@web10001.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20010510031456.82964.qmail@web10001.mail.yahoo.com>
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Andrew Sherrod <ixkatl@yahoo.com> writes: > Just to correct the statement about MySQL not being of > production grade... My current employer uses both > Oracle and MySQL on our backend. Yes, MySQL lacks some > of the features (transaction logging, transaction > control, row level locking, 4th gen. language > interface, adequate documentation of C interface, etc) > but in cases where those features are not needed it is > robust enough, and fast enough, to compete quite well > with the bigger and more feature-filled databases. No. You can't build a prober relational database without reference integrity and transaction integrity. MySQL has neither. Take my word for it as someone who has extensive experience developing applications on top of MySQL: it's not much more than a toy. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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