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At 06:52 -0700 2003.08.27, Ann Barcomb wrote: >My single biggest complaint about MySQL is that historically it hasn't >promoted itself as the right tool for some jobs, but as the right >tool for every job. This may have changed--I haven't checked out >the marketing in recent years--but my initial impression was that >MySQL was misleading people. Remember when they used to say that >nobody needed transactions (it's true that not everyone does...but >to say that nobody does is quite misleading)? Technically, no one DOES need transactions. Everything you do with transactions CAN be done in a different way (usually much more painful, of course). So I don't think it is as misleading as the PostgreSQL fans like to say it is, though it certainly isn't the most honest thing to say, either. :-) -- Chris Nandor pudge@xxxxx.xxx http://pudge.net/ Open Source Development Network pudge@xxxx.xxx http://osdn.com/There's stuff above here
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