[Lazarus] Lazarus, Jedi etc.

[Henry Vermaak]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 02:49:06PM +0100, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 2013-07-15 13:43, leledumbo wrote:
> > 
> > Or if they insist on using MySQL (compatible alternative): MariaDB
> 
> Nope, still not! I'll not touch MySQL, MariaDB or anything based on
> those with a 10 foot pole! If you value your data, stay away from those two.
> 
> Another developer enlightened me on how bad MySQL really is, and I
> confirmed what he said on two of my servers (Linux and FreeBSD).
> 
> Here is the simple test to show how bad MySQL/MariaDB is...
> 
> ---------[ Forwarded message ]-----------
> This test was done on a newly setup FreeBSD server - no tweaking to
> MySQL was done - just the default install.
> 
> mysql> create table a (b int not null, c int not null);
> Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.17 sec)
> 
> mysql> insert into a (b) values (1);
> Query OK, 1 row affected, 1 warning (0.03 sec)
> 
> As if the above was not miraculous enough, then you get:
> 
> mysql> select * from a;
> +-+-+
> | b | c |
> +-+-+
> | 1 | 0 |
> +-+-+
> 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
> 
> Unbelievable!

Could you explain why the above is bad for those of us that aren't DB
experts?  To my untrained eye it looks fairly plausible, so I'm
obviously missing something.

Henry