Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 17th Jun 2004 21:11 UTC
Today we features a mini-Q&A with Alex Roedling, MySQL's Senior Product Manager, about all things MySQL, the competition, technology, licensing and more.
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Plenty of people complain about MySQL and how lenient it is on users. Plenty of people complain about PHP for the same reason. It's not typed. It's not good for big projects. It's OO model is a mess.
Well, news flash people. They freakin' work. They are easier to learn, which means they are cheaper to build in, initially if not forever. And trained DB people always have a coniption fit when anyone suggests that data integrity is optional, even in many business settings. Well, take an economics class, people. Data integrity isn't something you put on the box of anything BUT a DB. And for internal apps there is no box. It's about results. And speed of production, ease of install, and ease of maintenance can offset the risk of data loss. Shocking, but true.
Besides, MySQL (yawn) does have transactions, if you care to edit one line of my.cnf to allow for the use of InnoDB tables. It has a binary log for recoveries. And it will run for years at blazing speeds without you ever changing a single default value in the server configuration. It's not the app for all occasions, but anyone who can't see the incredible usefulness of MySQL is blind.