On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Mathew Robertson wrote: > you are kidding right?
Not at all. That doesn't mean I expect to convince anyone though. This is the kind of wisdom that usually only comes from experience! > ACID capabilites and all that... > proper locking semantics... > long history with native support for transactions... > proper SQL transaction semantics... Over-rated. Sure, if I was building banking software I might have a different opinion, but I'm not. A simple database with few critical bugs protects my data better than your fancy ACID transactions! How can I be so sure? I've worked with big complex systems running on both databases. I've watched Bricolage completely destroy user data despite using PostgreSQL's transaction support. In contrast, Krang hasn't lost data yet, as far as I know. A few careful locks in the right places seem to be just what the doctor ordered for a moderatly complex content management system. And if the catastrophic happens, like a system crash, that's what nightly backups are for. Nightly backups might not be good enough for all applications, but they're good enough for a content-management system. > As you said, people can make spaghetti out of anything - how this > makes MySQL 'better', I dont understand. Experience. Wrestle with a database strewn with triggers, constraints, abstract types and functions sometime. You'll be begging to be back in the moderate mess of a badly designed MySQL DB. There's less there so there's just less to do badly. It may not be an emperical fact, but I didn't presented it as such! -sam ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink & Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 _______________________________________________ Html-template-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/html-template-users
