Video neglects to mention MySQL strict mode (which one should be using) and solves all these behaviors. They're explicit about this in docs, including what the

Video neglects to mention MySQL strict mode (which one should be using) and solves all these behaviors. They're explicit about this in docs, including what the default is: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/server-configuration-defaults.html http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/server-configuration-... Auth is a pretty aside argument. Those sorts of auth are not a particularly common use case. All sorts of auth can go in front rather than be built in, and if those don't apply, sure, might affect your DB choice. Not inherently a reason to not use MySQL though.