[ale] Humor: MySQL vs. PostgreSQL

[James Sumners]

PostgreSQL may be better, I haven't taken the time to check it out.
But a video created less than 2 months ago should at least get the
MySQL features correct. Before the first minute is over they say MySQL
doesn't support "Transactions" or "foreign keys". Hmmm, [1] and [2]
says otherwise. Oh, and they say MySQL isn't "ACID compliant." Here's
a quote from [1]: "InnoDB [MySQL table type] provides full ACID
compliance."

Anyway, back to watching the rest of the video.

[1] -- http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/ansi-diff-transactions.html
[2] -- http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/ansi-diff-foreign-keys.html

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
> Alright, I had to share this.  I meant to send this last week after the
> meeting, but I had to dig up the link again and forgot about it until
> today.  Don't watch the video at work unless you have a very liberal
> enviornment... or headphones.
>
> http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7091415/
>
> This is well worth watching.  But if you're one of those who likes using
> MySQL for all things (if all you have is a hammer...) then you might not
> want to watch it, because it might be offensive to you.  :-)
>
>        --- Mike



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