MySQL, like all other products, can be peachy or bitchy.   Good ones, they also 
die.    Wish I was kidding :-)


On Dec 4, 2012, at 2:37 PM, Andrés Tello wrote:

> Are u kidding?  
>  
> Mysql is dead easy and damn good... obviously it has its perks, but any 
> database engine has them... (I'm looking at you DB2)... 
>  
> There has been a lot of improvements lately, I "feel" that mysql is moving 
> much more faster under oracle umbrella than when it was alone... 
>  
> Replication... omg, replicacion is DEAD easy! so easy, that usually you 
> doublecheck things just because you are unsure that is SO easy...  
>  
> Partitioning, views, storeprocedures, explain and analise are good enough... 
> it simply work... I never, ever had a database corruption (I'm looking at to 
> you Mssql!) ... 
>  
> I have tables with more the 5millon rows, noproblem, I have a table with more 
> than 40 millon rows... and of course I have troubles, but always, always been 
> resolved... 
>  
> Mysql is... wonderful, it just works... You want it to "work as a storage 
> with out integrity?", done.. with integrity? done, replicaion, encryption, 
> secure connections, partition... name your feature! 
> 
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> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Singer Wang <w...@singerwang.com> wrote:
> Lol! Good point Karen!
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Karen Abgarian <a...@apple.com> wrote:
> 
> > A touch of realism: we are all dying.   For some, it may take a while,
> > hopefully.
> >
> > On 04.12.2012, at 9:53, Tim Pownall wrote:
> >
> > > Mysql is used by just about every web host and is one of the most common
> > > database servers around the world. I do not have any intent to stop using
> > > mysql unless they start charging for it which I do not think will happen.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Tim Pownall
> > > Sr. Linux Systems Monitoring
> > > Hostgator.com LLC
> > >
> > > On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Anthony Pace <anthony.p...@utoronto.ca
> > >wrote:
> > >
> > >> I have heard that due to Oracle taking over, the OS community is
> > shifting
> > >> to other type of DB's .
> > >>
> > >> Any thoughts?
> > >>
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> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Tim Pownall
> > > GNU/Linux Systems Monitoring
> > > 610-621-9712
> > > pownall...@gmail.com
> >
> >
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