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IBM, MS Critique MySQL
magellan writes "InfoWorld has an article reporting how both IBM and Microsoft are dissing MySQL. While it is understandable from Microsoft, it is interesting that IBM, who often claims to be a defender of Open Source Software, would be so negative. Sun Microsystems and Yahoo are quoted as providing positive opinions on MySQL." On the credit site for MySQL, though, Bingo Foo writes "MySQL has finally answered its detractors who complained about its lack of transactions. A press release today reveals that InnoDB is now fully integrated with the stock MySQL product, allowing ACID-compliant transactions, rollback, and crash recovery. Let the religious wars begin!"
Are you talking about DB2? You don't seriously consider MySQL to be a competing product to DB2, do you? That's kind of like saying Land Rover competes with Boeing. They're just in different classes altogether.
Forget transactions -- you can fake that with LOCKs.
Forget RDBMSs, you can fake them using plain ASCII text files.
I laughed out loud when I saw that it featured a quotation by "head of the SQL Server project" opposing a quotation by "head technical Yahoo." Somehow I'm much more reassured having a Yahoo on our side than a stuffed shirt...
The main thing missing from MySQL is subselects, views and subselects- the TWO main things missing from MySQL are views and subselects... and triggers... Oh I'll just come in again....
Among MySQL's deficiencies are such diverse elements as subselects, views and triggers...
(Ashamed to say I've forgotten the rest...)
"we must spend our entire budget"
Where can I find such a company? I wouldn't mind overbidding a few projects to help a manager spend his budget. I'm just a helpful guy, what can I say?
Social scientists are inspired by theories; scientists are humbled by facts.
(JARRING CHORD)
(The door flies open and Bill Gates of Microsoft enters, flanked by two junior cardinals. Steve Ballmer has goggles pushed over his forehead. Sam Palmisano (IBM) is just an idiot.)
Gates: NOBODY expects the InfoWorld Article! The chief thing missing from MySQL is subselects...subselects and views...views and subselects.... The two things missing are views and subselects...and triggers.... The *three* things missing are views, subselects and triggers...and an almost fanatical devotion to row-level transactions.... The *four*...no... *Amongst* the things missing from MySQL
Slashdotters: I didn't expect a kind of InfoWorld article.
we run mysql at the public company i work for to handle every aspect of the intranet for 500 employees.
i have a meeting at 3pm PST with the oracle DBAs to teach them how to maintain it... whatever that means.
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Every time I see comments about girls and marriage, I worry that Slashdot may no longer be of the geeks and for the geeks. Fortunately, then someone comes along like you and describes a database system as "a joy".
It's not often /. leaves me with a huge grin anymore but the image of you jumping up, punching the air and yelling, "Woohoo! I get to work with Postgres!" left me with one.
God bless you. God bless your pure, innocent love of databases.
MySQL is a rusty old Chevy with a 70s rocket engine (with a penguin decal) strapped to the hood aimed at a brick wall.
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>MySQL versus Microsoft Access, those are reasonable comparisons
wow Access must have grown up a lot since the last time I tried to used it
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Amusing.
:-)
So basically what you're saying is that a bunch of people who use MySQL as the backend for a massively scalable dynamic website believe MySQL can be used as the backend for a massively scalable dynamic website. In fact, there's so sure it's possible they'll occasionally mention this belief *on* their MySQL-backended, massively scalable dynamic website.
Meanwhile, the users of this MySQL-backended, massively scalable dynamic website take every single opportunity to mention the limitations, flaws, and general lack of scalability of MySQL. They usually do this after reading through hundreds of posts that say the exact same thing, brought to them dynamically within a couple seconds of their request via the horribly limited, terribly flawed, completely unscalable database they're posting nobody should ever, ever use.
--Dan