As a contractor, I'm glad that MySQL is still around. It's an extremely useful red flag for potential clients. It is almost guaranteed that if a client is runn

As a contractor, I'm glad that MySQL is still around. It's an extremely useful red flag for potential clients. It is almost guaranteed that if a client is running on MySQL, you can be certain their entire code base is going to be plagued with less-than-best-practices. Not to be too harsh, but MySQL's most prominent use case is for projects that start with "let's just stand-up a DB real quick and we'll sort out the hard stuff later".