From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-09-13T12:48:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Joel Spolsky on languages for web programming

On 9/12/06, William Grosso <wgrosso@wgrosso.com> wrote:
> Austin Ziegler wrote:
> > On 9/12/06, William Grosso <wgrosso@wgrosso.com> wrote:
> >> Austin Ziegler wrote:
> >> > SQL databases suck, but MySQL implements SQL so badly that it
> >> > shouldn't even be called an SQL database.
> >> I think we're running into a terminology issue here. If we think
> >> of MySQL as a data persistence and retrieval mechanism, it has
> >> certain properties and is optimized for certain types of
> >> applications.
> > You mean "applications where the integrity of the data is completely
> > irrelevant."
> No, I meant exactly what I said.

> Thanks for putting words in my mouth though.

MySQL is optimized for one thing: applications that don't give a damn
about data integrity. Like most PHP applications.

If you want something that actually protects your data, use something
else. Hell, SQLite is better than MySQL for that.

So, you may have meant what you said, but what you said was so
nonsensical that I was forced to make it clear what you actually
meant.

-austin
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