Fwd: MySQL RANT

[tedroche-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Ted Roche)]

Apologies to Mark... I intended to send this to the list and not
privately. Stupid mail client...

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On 6/8/07, markw-FJ05HQ0HCKaWd6l5hS35sQ at public.gmane.org <markw-FJ05HQ0HCKaWd6l5hS35sQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> In a professional environment, if you ignore the body of knowledge and
> theory about the tool-set to your solution, I maintain you should be
> fired.
>
> Even further, without a very specific reason, the choice of using MySQL
> shows a complete lack of understanding about SQL databases, and that may
> pass these days for beginners, but not for competent software engineers.
>

For those of us less enlightened, could you share the key features, or
lack of them, that make MySQL a fire-able offense?

And of the other choices a client might enquire about: MS SQL Server,
Oracle, Ingres, PostgreSQL, Access, FoxPro, dBASE, FIrebird,
SQLite,... are there others you'd put in the same category?

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Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com

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