Hi Henry On 16 July 2013 10:28, <lazarus-requ...@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org> wrote:
> From: Henry Vermaak <henry.verm...@gmail.com> > <snip> > If it really is so bad, why have so many developers- in particularly > > web developers- clasped it to their bosom? > > Probably not, no, given that it's used by wikipedia, google, twitter, > etc. It just seems like Graeme and Michael are complaining that it > doesn't default to strict mode (i.e. traditional mode in mysql > parlance). Lots of credibility lost if people rant about something that > they can actually configure the way they like. Of the three examples updates happen relatively infrequently on wikipedia, so transactional integrity is not really important at all. And in both the other examples speed, rather than data integrity, is the priority (i.e. if google misses a search result or two, does it really matter? or if I miss a tweet now and then, does it really matter?). Speed is important, however for these applications. This is where mySQL shines. Michael Schnell <mschn...@lumino.de> > I seem to find out that this discussion is about experts making fun on > each other, just wasting some bandwidth :-) . I hope not! It really depends on what you want from the DB. If speed, rather than data integrity is your priority, then mySQL is a good choice (plus part of LAMP : although here I would advise you to use Python rather than PHP). But if you are working with financial data, it is a really bad idea and you need a proper RDMS. Cheers Chaovux
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