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Why MySQL Grew So Fast
jpkunst writes "Andy Oram, who attended the MySQL Users Conference which was held April 16-18 in Orlando, Florida, attempts to explain MySQL's popularity in his weblog at oreillynet.com. (More weblogs about the 2004 MySQL Users Conference can be found at the The 2004 MySQL User's Conference & Expo Blog Collection.)"
They do not recognize "Postgres", or even know how to pronounce it. It sounds vaguely French and therefore un-American.
Yep, it is that simple.
Oracle, of course.
Love,
Larry Ellison
Because PostgreSQL takes longer to type :-)
Please don't mention MS Access again. It makes my skin crawl just thinking about it. MS Access lets everyone think they can be a DBA. And then they want to run enterprise level warehouse tracking, inventory, payroll and who knows what else from the little database they whipped up between Solitare games.
Sorry if I sound bitter but MS Access has given me more than one headache.
Who said Freedom was Fair?
Perhaps it was random MySQL data corruption at work. ;-)
(Disclaimer: I like MySQL.)
3. ??? 4. Profit!
Who doesn't like free music?
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8. Pwofit!
7. And it has the words "Don't Panic" on the cover.
Lump lingered last in line for brains, and the ones she got were sorta rotten and insane.
1. Bovine growth hormones in its milk
2. Possible steroid abuse
What rock have you been living under? Have you ever by chance heard of a program called Excel?!? Most robust DB product on the market as far as I know, and I know a lot.
Well, if you used the sensible dateformat (yyyymmdd) instead of rely on ones determined by connection settings you might do better... and judging sql2k by 6.5 ... well, since 6.5 they've discovered electricity and put a man on the moon ffs.
> This is what schemes like row-level locking and multi-version concurrency are for.
:-)
Are you japanese?
(1) We settled on Sybase.
(4) Investors realized nothing was making it to market and too much was being spent, and company went under.
Heh... you could've just combined steps 1 and 4, and skipped 2 and 3 altogether, and the story still would've made perfect sense.
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