While I agree that time and effort needs to be devoted to issues involving speed and developing ports to many platforms, I also think that the lack of things like views, stored procedures and, until recently, the lack of transactions has forced people to look at other products when they would have preferred to stick with Mysql. The group I work with has used Mysql for years and are very eager to embrace the support for stored procedures and have no desire to move our applications, many of which are high-traffic and large databases, to another database server.
Funny, but I don't recall reading the words "fuck the system" anywhere in the original post. But congratulations on finding an excuse to inject some unnecessary profanity in your message -- we need more of that, really. In defense/support of the original poster, my son was diagnosed by three separate psychologists as having ADHD, put on ritalin... the usual treatment for a kid who won't sit still in school. For some kids I know this works, and works well. But it's severely over-diagnosed and even more severely over-medicated. Many of these kids wind up using the diagnosis as a crutch and excuse for their behavior -- "I act this way because there's something wrong with me".
We finally pulled our son out of public school (which is great for turning out large numbers of factory workers, don't get me wrong), and have been homeschooling him for the last 2 years. He has learned at an unbelievable rate and seems to just soak up information. The problem with him was that he got bored in class because the school system caters to the lowest common denominator. If you already understand the subject at hand, you must wait on everyone else.
In short: cater the educational environment to the child's learning ability and there is a good chance the symptoms will be replaced with enthusiasm or at least given something to focus on....and I never even had to use the F* word, how about that?
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While I agree that time and effort needs to be devoted to issues involving speed and developing ports to many platforms, I also think that the lack of things like views, stored procedures and, until recently, the lack of transactions has forced people to look at other products when they would have preferred to stick with Mysql. The group I work with has used Mysql for years and are very eager to embrace the support for stored procedures and have no desire to move our applications, many of which are high-traffic and large databases, to another database server.
Funny, but I don't recall reading the words "fuck the system" anywhere in the original post. But congratulations on finding an excuse to inject some unnecessary profanity in your message -- we need more of that, really. In defense/support of the original poster, my son was diagnosed by three separate psychologists as having ADHD, put on ritalin... the usual treatment for a kid who won't sit still in school. For some kids I know this works, and works well. But it's severely over-diagnosed and even more severely over-medicated. Many of these kids wind up using the diagnosis as a crutch and excuse for their behavior -- "I act this way because there's something wrong with me".
...and I never even had to use the F* word, how about that?
We finally pulled our son out of public school (which is great for turning out large numbers of factory workers, don't get me wrong), and have been homeschooling him for the last 2 years. He has learned at an unbelievable rate and seems to just soak up information. The problem with him was that he got bored in class because the school system caters to the lowest common denominator. If you already understand the subject at hand, you must wait on everyone else.
In short: cater the educational environment to the child's learning ability and there is a good chance the symptoms will be replaced with enthusiasm or at least given something to focus on.