Re: MySQL

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From: Chris Nandor
Subject: Re: MySQL
Date: 14:59 on 27 Aug 2003
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.  :-)

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