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You'd think a DBI programmer would know how awful MySQL is and how it would be better left to die.
by james2vegas 17y ago
You'd think a DBI programmer would know how awful MySQL is and how it would be better left to die.
- NathanKP 17y agoMySQL does the job pretty well for applications in which stored procedures and other advanced features are not needed. It is really fast and very effective at doing what is absolutely needed: INSERTS, UPDATES, and SELECTS. I don't think it is "awful" or ready to die.
- jacquesm 17y agoIf it was that awful it wouldn't have the installed base it's got. The simple fact that it has a very low barrier to entry alone is one of its major selling points.
- prodigal_erik 17y agoQuality rarely drives market share in software. In this case I blame nearly all of the 5.2 million PHP and MySQL tutorials out there for exemplifying shoddy practices that inevitably lead to quietly truncated fields, phantom reads, and SQL injection attacks.