From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 10 6: 2:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F063537B422 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 06:02:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA65301; Thu, 10 May 2001 15:02:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Andrew Sherrod Cc: Jeff Eckermann , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Oracle, References: <20010510031456.82964.qmail@web10001.mail.yahoo.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 10 May 2001 15:02:26 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20010510031456.82964.qmail@web10001.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew Sherrod 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