Hi Henry<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 July 2013 10:28, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lazarus-request@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org" target="_blank">lazarus-request@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> From: Henry Vermaak <<a href="mailto:henry.vermaak@gmail.com">henry.vermaak@gmail.com</a>><br> <snip> </blockquote>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">> If it really is so bad, why have so many developers- in particularly<br>
> web developers- clasped it to their bosom?<br>
<br>
Probably not, no, given that it's used by wikipedia, google, twitter,<br>
etc. It just seems like Graeme and Michael are complaining that it<br>
doesn't default to strict mode (i.e. traditional mode in mysql<br>
parlance). Lots of credibility lost if people rant about something that<br> they can actually configure the way they like. </blockquote><div>Of the three examples updates happen relatively infrequently on wikipedia, so transactional integrity is not really important at all. </div>
<div>And in both the other examples speed, rather than data integrity, is the priority (i.e. if google misses a search result or two, does it really matter? or if I miss a tweet now and then, does it really matter?). Speed is important, however for these applications. This is where mySQL shines.</div>
<div><br></div><div> Michael Schnell <<a href="mailto:mschnell@lumino.de">mschnell@lumino.de</a>><br>> I seem to find out that this discussion is about experts making fun on<br>> each other, just wasting some bandwidth :-) .<br>
</div><div>I hope not! It really depends on what you want from the DB. If speed, rather than data integrity is your priority, then mySQL is a good choice (plus part of LAMP : although here I would advise you to use Python rather than PHP). But if you are working with financial data, it is a really bad idea and you need a proper RDMS.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Chaovux</div></div>