Hello from Gregg C Levine John, I know that, you know that, and so does everyone else on this list. My point is, most of my customers, wouldn't know what to do with a good database, like Oracle, if it bit them, someplace. Anyway, thanks for the reminder. ------------------- Gregg C Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------ "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi "Use the Force, Luke."� Obi-Wan Kenobi (This company dedicates this E-Mail to General Obi-Wan Kenobi ) (This company dedicates this E-Mail to Master Yoda )
> -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > John Summerfield > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 6:33 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Where are your databases? > > On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Gregg C Levine wrote: > > > Hello again from Gregg C Levine > > I thought penguins were small birds to begin with? (Sorry I thought a > > joke was in order.) > > Every time I've experimented with a database for a customer, it's been > > MySQL on Intel. Distribution neutral, since the customer was of the > > > Please, don't confuse MySQL as a relational database manager. It lacks > several important features, deliberately omitted "for performance > reasons." > > In some cases, it parses SQL to implement those features and accepts the > syntax, but doesn't do the grunt work, so a developer trying to use > those features might not recognise there's a problem. > > Also, some years ago now, I was on a MySQL list and took up the issue of > using floating point arithmetic for counting money. The MySQL people > didn't see there's a problem, though others tried to explain it more > eloquently than I can. > > Find archives for the sql-ledger list, and find there why sql-ledger > does not, will not support MySQL. > > There are uses for MySQL, just as there are for db{1,2,3,4}, but not > where referential integrity matters. > > > -- > > > Cheers > John. > > Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at > http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb > Copyright John Summerfield. Reproduction prohibited.
