Skippy's project <OT>

[Burns MacDonald]

On Wednesday 29 May 2002 21:58, David A. Bandel wrote:

> ... But to compare
> either of them to MySQL is blasphemy to someone who knows about SQL
> servers and what they are/do.  The operative word is ACID, and MySQL
> isn't.  MySQL is a fancy filesystem.  It lacks atomicity, referential
> integrity (a pretty big deal all by itself), and can even be argued to
> lack consistency. 
>
>

Absolutely true. MySQL is not seriously condsidered to be a deployable 
database in the industry (or at least the part I work in). 

FWIW, we rarely see any demand for Sybase, either. For DBs and data management 
systems, Oracle, DB2 and SAP seem to predominate. However, this could 
admittedly depend upon what scale you are talking about, too. 

-- 
burns