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I remember being introduced to MySQL a long time ago (around 2004). When I noticed its standards incompliance, buggy indexing, weird collating behaviour and inc

by edejong 11y ago

I remember being introduced to MySQL a long time ago (around 2004). When I noticed its standards incompliance, buggy indexing, weird collating behaviour and incomplete query optimizer, I was repeatedly told these quirks will soon be resolved and it was 'only a matter of time'. Something to keep in the back of your head when you see similar situations with other open source solutions.

noja 11y ago
with other <strike>open source</strike> solutions.
- endymi0n 11y ago
  While it most definitely is open source, it nicely shows the difference between an open source project and an open source product (which, on top, is cannibalizing the other, ridiculously high priced mainline inhouse DB)