>>>>> "Chas" == "Chas Owens" <chas.ow...@gmail.com> writes:
Chas> That said, it doesn't provide some things you might expect. So far as Chas> I know, it provides no security layer. there is no username or Chas> password to connect, no users own tables (and therefore there are no Chas> privileges to grant). The database does no type checking. If you Chas> declare a column as being an integer, there is nothing to stop you Chas> from storing a string in it (this is a simplification of its dynamic Chas> typing, but an integer column can contain "fred"). There is no longer a gap between SQLite and PostgreSQL that MySQL could fill nicely, as it had in the past. They overlap in the middle. MySQL should not be used for new starts. Or, as I say, "Friends don't let friends use MySQL". -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <mer...@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.posterous.com/ for Smalltalk discussion
