On 16-7-2013 10:59, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: >> Reinier Olislagers wrote: >> >>> It's not a bug, it's a feature: MySQL accepts data other DBs wouldn't >>> touch with a 10 foot pole ;) >>> (Don't ask about it proceeding and mangling that data - that's beside >>> the point ;) ) >> >> If it really is so bad, why have so many developers- in particularly >> web developers- clasped it to their bosom? > > Simple: laziness. True.
> I seriously doubt any bank would consider using MySQL for their > financial data. Much better to shell out the big bucks to the likes of IBM and Oracle so you can always say to your PHB that you're covered by a support contract and a gold-plated company ;) > For the cookies of their website: no problem. But not the actual account > information. Imagine their horror when the database decided to round all > numbers up for no apparent reason :) Well, it depends. As indicated in the thread, if you configure mysql well, it starts to behave a bit more RDBMS-like. If you are disciplined writing programs that access it (or let e.g. an ORM like Hibernate do the discipline for you), you could use MySQL as well. The % of applications living up to that are probably not that big but they're probably there. That said, with Oracle's recent shenanigans, I'd think PostgreSQL popularity should surely be rising. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
