<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 18 July 2013 14:46, Paulo Costa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paco.mail.telepac.pt@gmail.com" target="_blank">paco.mail.telepac.pt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 18/07/2013 14:31, Kenneth Cochran wrote:<br>
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On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 6:23 AM, Reimar Grabowski <<a href="mailto:reimgrab@web.de" target="_blank">reimgrab@web.de</a><br></div><div class="im">
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On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 11:17:29 +0200<br>
Reinier Olislagers <<a href="mailto:reinierolislagers@gmail.com" target="_blank">reinierolislagers@gmail.com</a><br></div><div class="im">
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> Regardless, I don't think prolonging this thread is very useful.<br>
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I invoke Godwin's law.<br>
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You're all a bunch of Hilter lovin' Nazis.<br>
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There, that should kill the thread.<br>
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Unfortunately, no...<br>
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>From wikipedia:<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<u></u>Godwin%27s_law</a><br>
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"It is considered poor form to raise such a comparison arbitrarily with the motive of ending the thread. There is a widely recognized corollary that any such ulterior-motive invocation of Godwin's law will be unsuccessful.[8]"<br>
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I apologize for going so much off topic,<br>
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Paulo Costa<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_extra">There is nothing particularly "wrong" with MySQL. Together with its partner in crime PHP they were hacks their developers put together to make things easy for their developers and they caught on quickly in the early days of the web. They just outgrew their intended usage ("good enough") and once their installed base grew it became difficult and expensive to enforce compliance without breaking existing applications.<br>
When you know that MySQL was developed from an even earlier "toy" database called msql you will understand.<br><br>Just Google some of the debates surrounding them in their early days when Monty Widenius or( was it David Axmark) said something like ACID compliance was not necessary in an RDBMS or MySQL was ACID compliant or some other such tripe to understand why MySQL is the way it is. At that time PostgreSQL was at the 6.5 or so level and MySQL ran rings round it in ease of installability and performance. You just had to copy the files from one place to another and off you went. Try doing that with PostgreSQL. MySQL also worked very well with Windows which was a bonus. It just couldn't be beaten for ease of deployment. <br>
<br>Consider that most of the other database cost a bomb in licensing and you can see why MySQL became so popular. It was such a doddle to use. Compare MySQL's command line tools to those of PostgreSQL or Firebird's command line tools and you will see why MySQL became so popular. Did I mention the licensing issue?<br>
<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">-- <br>Frank Church<br><br>=======================<br><a href="http://devblog.brahmancreations.com">http://devblog.brahmancreations.com</a>
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