From a8d92f7e5f5ed57657a2a5a3a4ad5ed8eace14ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Owen Jacobson Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:27:10 -0500 Subject: One more bad reason to use MySQL. --- wiki/mysql/choose-something-else.md | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/wiki/mysql/choose-something-else.md b/wiki/mysql/choose-something-else.md index adb55c3..50c2b44 100644 --- a/wiki/mysql/choose-something-else.md +++ b/wiki/mysql/choose-something-else.md @@ -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 -- cgit v1.2.3