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| Newer page: | version 10 | Last edited on Thursday, June 17, 2004 5:13:26 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
| Older page: | version 7 | Last edited on Tuesday, September 2, 2003 2:32:03 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
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-[MySQL] is supposedly an
[SQL
] DataBase management system ([RDBMS])
.
+[MySQL] is a
[Relational|RelationalDataBase]/[PostRelational|PostRelationalDataBase
] DataBase management system. It is the canonical example of a successful commercial OpenSource product. This has been attributed primarily to the fact that it's DualLicensed
.
Some also say it is devil spawn or a horrible piece of badly written software. It's very fast at low loads because it's hardly more than a glorified flat file database with an [SQL] interface, but that comes at the expense of any feature anyone would find useful ([TransAction]s, as one example). It sucks at large joins and has trouble handling tables with a few million rows in them.
;: ''Loud jarring chord!''
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* DO NOT USE MYSQL'S RAND() FUNCTION, IT CAUSES YOUR DATABASE TO DISAPPEAR
* DO NOT LET MYSQL'S PARTITION FULL UP, IT CAUSES YOUR DATABASE TO CORRUPT
* DO NOT USE MYSQL UNDER LOAD, IT CAUSES YOUR DATABASE TO CORRUPT
* DON'T LOOK AT THE MYSQL SERVER IN THE WRONG TONE OF VOICE, IT CAUSES YOUR DATABASE TO CORRUPT
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+See also: http://www.mysql.com/
