Will MySQL die soon ?

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009, Ben Duncan wrote:
> LOL ...... As my best friend says "Ben, SQL was invented for those
> who do not know how to program".

The ``Q'' in SQL is ``Query'', not update, like the ``B'' in
BASIC is ``Beginners'' -- it was never intended for Real Work(tm).

> Me , give a decent ISAM file manager any day !!!

I hope you aren't referring to the Sleepycat Berkeley DB routines
as decent.  The are probably the worst case of spaghetti code I
have ever seen.  Look at the #ifn*defs in the perl and python
bsddb support, many of which depend not on only o major version
number, but minor as well.

Bill
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