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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
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

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