On Feb 5, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Patrick Coskren wrote: > On Feb 5, 2009, at 12:21 PM, Lawrence Sica wrote: > >> MySQL is, to be frank, shittastic. I never understood >> the joy and awesomeness that some people think that it is made up of. > > Short learning curve and very quick for tasks with high-frequency > reads, low-frequency writes, and no strong need for data integrity. >
That short learning curve is part of the problem. You have people managing databases with no actual understanding of what that means as a result. Not that something needs to be hard, but it needs to not be too simple. > There are tasks for which that's a good set of tradeoffs. That > describes what a lot of web developers think they need. (I believe a > lot of web developers underestimate their need for data integrity > until it bites them in the ass.) I've found not just web developers underestimate this. It does amaze me how data-centric the web is and how much people seem to not really think about the value of it. --Larry _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
