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authorOwen Jacobson <owen.jacobson@grimoire.ca>2013-01-25 21:27:10 -0500
committerOwen Jacobson <owen.jacobson@grimoire.ca>2013-01-25 21:27:10 -0500
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One more bad reason to use MySQL.
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@@ -664,8 +664,15 @@ use MySQL:
Unfortunately, these aren't the reasons people do give, generally. The
following are much more common:
-* **It's good enough.** There are plenty of other equally-capable data storage
- systems that don't come with MySQL's huge raft of edge cases and quirks.
+* **It's good enough.** No it ain't. There are plenty of other equally-capable
+ data storage systems that don't come with MySQL's huge raft of edge cases
+ and quirks.
+ * **We haven't run into these problems.** Actually, a lot of these
+ problems happen _silently_. Odds are, unless you write your queries and
+ schema statements with the manual open and refer back to it constantly,
+ or have been using MySQL since the 3.x era _daily_, at least some of
+ these issues have bitten you. The ones that prevent you from using your
+ database intelligently are very hard to notice in action.
* **We already know how to use it.** MySQL development and administration
causes brain damage, folks, the same way PHP does. Where PHP teaches
programmers that "array" is the only structure you need, MySQL teaches