WHAT? You're crazy, schon, web development is all about databases, and I would guess that at least half of all web development has some sort of SQL backend doing at least some of the work. What web developers are using flat files for data storage on their sites? If it's not static pages, then SQL is bound to be invloved. I think the web community has embraced SQL out of necessity, not backed away from it in favor of some other backend solution.
I used to write DLLs to interface with Access from outside apps (worst job EVER). Most of the code was in Visual Basic (worst language EVER). VB once said
CATASTROPHIC FAILURE!
and locked the machine up. The problem was something simple, like trying to access a non-existent field from a recordset, but apparently VB couldn't handle it.
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Good reasons, thanks for the answers.
just curious, what features do you need that MySQL 5.x doesn't have?
WHAT? You're crazy, schon, web development is all about databases, and I would guess that at least half of all web development has some sort of SQL backend doing at least some of the work. What web developers are using flat files for data storage on their sites? If it's not static pages, then SQL is bound to be invloved. I think the web community has embraced SQL out of necessity, not backed away from it in favor of some other backend solution.
that was the worst news story i have ever read.
I used to write DLLs to interface with Access from outside apps (worst job EVER). Most of the code was in Visual Basic (worst language EVER). VB once said
CATASTROPHIC FAILURE!
and locked the machine up. The problem was something simple, like trying to access a non-existent field from a recordset, but apparently VB couldn't handle it.