Hi Mark On 16 July 2013 09:47, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Send Lazarus mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > From: Mark Morgan Lloyd <[email protected]> > <snip> If it really is so bad, why have so many developers- in particularly web > developers- clasped it to their bosom? > For two main reasons: 1. It is (used to be) fast compared to other DB's while still handling fairly large amounts of data. 2. Data integrity was not important to them (or they wanted to do all their data checking on the web interface side by hand and considered it as overkill or an unneeded resource drag on the DB side). I have heard enough horror stories of data corruption in mySQL to agree that it is in many ways still a toy DB and not a real RDBMS. However, when data integrity is not that important and DB speed is a bigger priority, it still has a role IMHO... at least it is a better choice than using text files for storing your data. Cheers Chavoux
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