With the projects that I'm involved with, I don't necessarily need every
option in a DB server, but with MySQL, I will never complain on
performance.
And of course, I don't use all of MySQL's current functionality..
My 2 cents.
Yves A
On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 09:56:06 -0500, Cutter (CF-Talk)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Let me preface this by saying that I don't fault anyone for their
> opinions. They are their opinions and as such deserve respect as such.
> When speaking of the below scenario I can see (especially considering
> the slow pace of mySQL dev in the past [which is no longer the case])
> why someone may have thought along these lines.
>
> Recently I was looking at evaluating a CF RAD tool under development (no
> details yet, but I'll let you know if and when I'm able). The tool
> looked like it would do all the things I wanted, yet I came to find out
> it didn't support mySQL.
>
> When I asked about this I was told that support had not been included
> because a) mySQL didn't support foreign keys, and b) because of this
> lack of functionality (and others) it "wasn't a serious database player."
>
> I will post part of my response to this at the end of this message, but
> my question for the community is this, how many of us here use mySQL? Or
> have used it in a site they've developed for a client? How many passed
> up using mySQL because of similar perceptions as those state above?
>
> I'm not trying to start a debate or a flame war here, I'm just trying to
> gage the perceptions out there in my fellow development community. I
> know that there are quite a few people here that develop third party
> apps for CF developers and I think it would be beneficial (for us all)
> to see what the percentages might me on this.
>
> Here is a snippit of my response:
>
> "MySQL supports foreign keys when the table is of the InnoDB type (MySQL
> supports several different engines). Support for this has been around
> since at least 4.0, though I think it may even go back as far as 3.23.
>
> The Alpha build of 5.0 was released this last month. E-week reported in
> testing that it was incredibly stable and that the new addition of
> stored procedure support was a major plus. As I understand it views are
> to be supported possibly as early as 5.1."
>
> Cutter
>
> P.S. Anyone who may be looking for some good beginner information on
> MySQL should check out the excellent book "MySQL Tutorial" by Luke
> Welling and Laura Thomson. Though it only covers 4.x, it is very easy to
> read and understand and provides short targeted tutorials for getting
> yourself up and going. I've been working with MySQL for about 3 years
> now and I've come to find I've only been scratching the surface of what
> it's capable of.
>
>
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