Most of the web world runs on MySQL and does ok - just like CDBaby who
You can't possibly liken Sybase to MySQL!
I know that they are not even in the same league technically, but they
do show disturbingly similar philosophies - like making NULL = NULL by
default because many clients with
That's great - I'm a bit of a Sybase newby and this tip makes life a lot easier.
Given that this is so easy and reasonable I don't understand why so
many Sybase developers employ other unreliable methods to emulate
triggers.
On 4/5/06, Bas Scheffers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
select @@identity
Mark Aufflick said:
do show disturbingly similar philosophies - like making NULL = NULL by
default because many clients with poorly trained developers asked for
I recon that's the only one! (and I still don't see why this is such a bad
thing) My problem with MySQL isn't this simplification, it's
On 2006.04.06, Mark Aufflick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's great - I'm a bit of a Sybase newby and this tip makes life a
lot easier.
Given that this is so easy and reasonable I don't understand why so
many Sybase developers employ other unreliable methods to emulate
triggers.
For the
Dossy Shiobara said:
You're right; MySQL is orders of magnitude better than Sybase. I'm dead
Yeah, when it doesn't blow up in weird and wonderul ways... And you don't
mind not being able to do online backups And if you think '-00-00'
or '2006-02-30' is a date... (oh no, just tested mysql
On 2006.04.06, Bas Scheffers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dossy Shiobara said:
You're right; MySQL is orders of magnitude better than Sybase. I'm dead
Yeah, when it doesn't blow up in weird and wonderul ways... [...]
I'll bet a nickel it's user error (whether that user is a developer or
the
It sounds like you guys are comparing rotten oranges and rotten apples.
tom jackson
On Thursday 06 April 2006 05:37, Bas Scheffers wrote:
Dossy Shiobara said:
You're right; MySQL is orders of magnitude better than Sybase. I'm dead
Yeah, when it doesn't blow up in weird and wonderul ways...
Tom Jackson said:
It sounds like you guys are comparing rotten oranges and rotten apples.
Are there any apples that aren't considered rotten by someone, somewhere?
Like I said before, every RDBMS has it's issues...
...MySQL just takes them to a whole new level and gets even otherwise
sensible
Dossy Shiobara said:
Oh man, who is feeding you this pack of lies? I mean, MySQL has been
able to do hot online backups since May 2002! Well, you've been able to
How? All I can find is this mysqldump and mysqlhotcopy, which lock
tables while they are being dumped. Hardly online backup if you
On 2006.04.06, Bas Scheffers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The difference? If I *had* to, I could extend MySQL to do exactly what
I need. (Beware: Tcl as a supported UDF language for MySQL stored
procs! Muwahaha.)
Why waste your time, Postgres already has that! :) (and loads of other
On 6 Apr 2006, at 17:42, Dossy Shiobara wrote:
Can you embed Postgres? Before I got turned on to SQLite, MySQL
served
I don't see that as a downside, it's not what I use it for. Like you
say, there's SQLite for that. Try embedding MySQL into a non-GPL
project and see how free it is then!
On 2006.04.06, Bas Scheffers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As much as people criticize MySQL's replication and clustering, where's
Postgres's? I don't see any mention of it in Postgres 8.1 docs:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/index.html
That's because replication isn't part
On 6 Apr 2006, at 19:13, dhogaza@PACIFIER.COM wrote:
The people who wrote MySQL have the ethical standards of the George W.
Bush administration.
What, it's made by the same folks as those behind JBoss!? ;-)
Bas.
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On 4/6/06, Dossy Shiobara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did you know that Sybase silently promotes an empty string to a string
of 1 character? You can't actually store an empty string in a Sybase
database. That is absolutely ridiculous. I'd expect that kind of
behavior from some college-level
On 4/6/06, Bas Scheffers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Aufflick said:
do show disturbingly similar philosophies - like making NULL = NULL by
default because many clients with poorly trained developers asked for
I recon that's the only one! (and I still don't see why this is such a bad
On 4/7/06, Mark Aufflick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 4/6/06, Dossy Shiobara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did you know that Sybase silently promotes an empty string to a string
of 1 character? You can't actually store an empty string in a Sybase
database. That is absolutely ridiculous. I'd
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