Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 11:44:11 -0400 From: "Ken Menzel" <kenm@icarz.com> To: "Andrew Sherrod" <ixkatl@yahoo.com>, "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" <des@ofug.org> Cc: "Jeff Eckermann" <jeckermann@verio.net>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Oracle, Message-ID: <005301c0d968$0eda7d40$711663cf@icarz.com> References: <20010510031456.82964.qmail@web10001.mail.yahoo.com> <xzpvgn9icgt.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Re: row locking, transactions and "toy", please see this page. http://netgraft.com/~mbac/research/mysqlmyths.html ----------------------------------------------------- Ken Menzel ICQ# 9325188 www.icarz.com kenm@icarz.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dag-Erling Smorgrav" <des@ofug.org> To: "Andrew Sherrod" <ixkatl@yahoo.com> Cc: "Jeff Eckermann" <jeckermann@verio.net>; <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 9:02 AM Subject: Re: Oracle, > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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