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"Dr. Dweeb" wrote:
> 
> Well Arne,
> 
> You clearly love MySQL.

No doubt, is has its uses.

> However, it is a toy database for toy applications - and explain
> exactly how MySQL is *not* "any other ISAM file library".

Is there an RTL that you can link against, ala RMS on RSTS/E? Perhaps an
.OLB? Is it integrated into any 3GLs, ala RMS on RSTSE/E, VMS, etc. such
that a language built-in can be used rather than a call to an external
routine?

> Until recently (and maybe still), one did not have to go far into the
> manual to realise that the developers were totally clueless as to the
> requirements of a database per se, and of a relational database in
> particular.
> 
> Faulty understanding of the issues involved led to fundamentally flawed
> product.  the fact that InnoBase even exists, is, well, proof by
> existence, that the original and current MySQL is seroiusly flawed.
> 
> And I am sorry, the notion that dat integrity is the responsibility of
> the application, as the developers of MySQL so fondly recounted in the
> manuals says exactly everything you need to know about their level of
> understanding of the theory, or for that matter, practice of databases
> in general and relational databases in particular.

What protection does RMS provide against assigning, for example, the
content of string field into a quadword integer? ...or the content of an
unsigned longword to the memory space occupied by a floating point
field?

> If you want a glorified file system

Is there "a glorified file system" underlying or provided with Oracle?
Seems to me it depends only on the extreme low-level primitives
underlying ODS, but side-steps enough of it that it can't even handle
bound volume-sets.

AFAIK, Oracle provides no file system services outside of itself.

> with a toy SQL on top if it for
> non-critical applications - fine, use MySQL.  I can conceive of few
> applications with even the most limited data integrity and security
> requirements that would be well served by MySQL.

If sloppy programming practice is the rule of the day, even Oracle won't
help.

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