MySQL RANT

[doctormo-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Martin Owens)]

I use MySQL on my home brew web stuff but wouldn't use it on real
world applications, these are just some of the problems I have
personaly found:

 * Lack of streaming on blobs, network congestion problems with large
data blobs.
 * Lack of Date/Time arithmetic caused me to have to implement it in
perl (annoyed)
 * Indexing problems when dealing with multi indexed tables that
contain incremental values
 * Creating multi-table queries takes forever and execution just isn't
efficient although they've been getting better.

My business reason:
 * MySQL business says you ca't use the GPL for business use when you
can and they confuse deliberately customers into thinking they have to
license it under commercial terms.

Other than those things? I wouldn't say I'd fire someone, I'm from
Europe we don't do that sort of thing. some education by a more
experienced sys-admin or developer may be order. we don't want people
to hate postgress just because some heartless jerk fired you for not
being a genius.

Regards, Martin

On 08/06/07, Ted Roche <tedroche-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Apologies to Mark... I intended to send this to the list and not
> privately. Stupid mail client...
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> On 6/8/07, markw-FJ05HQ0HCKaWd6l5hS35sQ at public.gmane.org <markw-FJ05HQ0HCKaWd6l5hS35sQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >
> > In a professional environment, if you ignore the body of knowledge and
> > theory about the tool-set to your solution, I maintain you should be
> > fired.
> >
> > Even further, without a very specific reason, the choice of using MySQL
> > shows a complete lack of understanding about SQL databases, and that may
> > pass these days for beginners, but not for competent software engineers.
> >
>
> For those of us less enlightened, could you share the key features, or
> lack of them, that make MySQL a fire-able offense?
>
> And of the other choices a client might enquire about: MS SQL Server,
> Oracle, Ingres, PostgreSQL, Access, FoxPro, dBASE, FIrebird,
> SQLite,... are there others you'd put in the same category?
>
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