From: Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...>
Date: 2006-09-13T01:44:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Joel Spolsky on languages for web programming

On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 09:08:44PM +0900, Austin Ziegler wrote:

> That's one. An aversion to foreign keys (which, contrary to DHH's
> assertion, *can* encode the relationships captured by most of the
> (Worse, MySQL behaviour is not consistent on this matter; on Windows,
> MySQL itself is case-insensitive but AR is still case-sensitive. MySQL
> is one of the worst damned implementations of SQL ever. Still.)

That's with respect to table names rather than column names, and really only
effects MyISAM tables. InnoDB tables don't have that problem, if I remember
correctly. BDB and others I'm not so sure about because I haven't had need to
use them myself.

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