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There have also been numerous horror stories where people discovered (after the fact) that MySQL wasn't storing their data as given, but instead internally sile

There have also been numerous horror stories where people discovered (after the fact) that MySQL wasn't storing their data as given, but instead internally silently converting it to some other format/type and storing that. People that directly experienced this very thing will probably chime in to give examples (etc). :)

jarym 3y ago
Yep - ME! Happened to ME! Now some will blame bad development, should have caught it in the application code via testing, etc. A 'true' DBMS will provide some guarantees and rather fail a transaction than do a 'best endeavours' job with it.