On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 02:49:06PM +0100, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 2013-07-15 13:43, leledumbo wrote: > > > > Or if they insist on using MySQL (compatible alternative): MariaDB > > Nope, still not! I'll not touch MySQL, MariaDB or anything based on > those with a 10 foot pole! If you value your data, stay away from those two. > > Another developer enlightened me on how bad MySQL really is, and I > confirmed what he said on two of my servers (Linux and FreeBSD). > > Here is the simple test to show how bad MySQL/MariaDB is... > > ---------[ Forwarded message ]----------- > This test was done on a newly setup FreeBSD server - no tweaking to > MySQL was done - just the default install. > > mysql> create table a (b int not null, c int not null); > Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.17 sec) > > mysql> insert into a (b) values (1); > Query OK, 1 row affected, 1 warning (0.03 sec) > > As if the above was not miraculous enough, then you get: > > mysql> select * from a; > +-+-+ > | b | c | > +-+-+ > | 1 | 0 | > +-+-+ > 1 row in set (0.00 sec) > > Unbelievable!
Could you explain why the above is bad for those of us that aren't DB experts? To my untrained eye it looks fairly plausible, so I'm obviously missing something. Henry -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
