That was a terrible time in history - lots of Perl web apps built using MySQL or mSQL It was made worse by the MySQL team actively advocating against features

That was a terrible time in history - lots of Perl web apps built using MySQL or mSQL It was made worse by the MySQL team actively advocating against features they didn't have "you don't need transactions, do it in your application", "you don't need foreign keys, do it in your application" blah blah. 20+ years later they're still struggling to shoehorn it in.