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From: "Ken Menzel" <kenm@icarz.com>
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Subject: Re: Oracle,
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 11:44:11 -0400
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Re: row locking, transactions and "toy",  please see this page.
http://netgraft.com/~mbac/research/mysqlmyths.html
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----- 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
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