Will MySQL die soon ?

Ben Duncan bend at linux4ms.net
Mon Apr 20 10:20:31 PDT 2009


HELL no, the I tried using the Berkly stuff and got totally
bummed out. WORST case of DOCS dont' match the code and let's
confuse the user as well.

There is a VBISAM routine that is fair decent and believe it or not,
Mix Software's ISAM is pretty durn good.


Bill Campbell wrote:
> 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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