Seriously. Databases should be as reliable as a rock. At my first startup, I quickly ran afoul of MySQL's silent string truncation behavior as well as its sile

Seriously. Databases should be as reliable as a rock. At my first startup, I quickly ran afoul of MySQL's silent string truncation behavior as well as its silent invalid dates = 0 error. Wait, my database is tossing out my data? If my head could have spun around, it would. In no universe should silent truncation ever have been a default behavior. I've avoided MySQL ever since.