Very true. Screw MySQL... except that many free software projects use MySQL as their backend. A problem for sure.
-- Kyle Gonzales Sent from my mobile On Nov 8, 2010, at 1:09 PM, Rafael Troncoso <[email protected]> wrote: > ... and MySQL now belongs to the evil, right Kyle? > Now seriously, it looks Oracle is taking out the InnoDB type from the > free version of MySQL ($2,000 if you want to get their commercial > support?). I don't know if MyISAM now supports transactions, but back > in the days when I used to use MySQL, in order to use transactions you > need to use InnoDB, so I wouldn't recommend you use MySQL either. > > On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 1:05 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 12:54 -0500, Kyle Gonzales wrote: >>> Try MySQL and PostgreSQL. >> >> Or Firebird ;) >> >> MySQL is not a good RDBMS to learn SQL, as it has many non-standard and >> quite perverted functionality. PostgreSQL and Firebird are standards >> compliant, at least through SQL:1999. >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL#Standardization >> >> -- >> William L. Thomson Jr. >> Obsidian-Studios, Inc. >> http://www.obsidian-studios.com >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 >> RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml >> Unsubscribe [email protected] >> >> > > > > -- > If you have freedom to choose, choose freedom, use GNU/Linux > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 > RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > Unsubscribe [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
