On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:37:57 -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> Peter H. Coffin wrote:
>> Read the followup article instead; their bias toward SQL Server end up
>> being "SQL Server offers more ways to replicate", "SQL Server offers
>> more ways to encrypt stuff", and "You can't just copy files to make a
>> good backup of MySQL".

[..]

> You forgot the part about the new features in 5.0 (triggers, stored
> procedures, etc.) not being stable yet. These guys think everyone
> produces code as bad as an unnamed company in Redmond.

True, I did forget. On the other hand, I've only been doing database
stuff for a decade, so I've only had a need for stored procedures twice
(and both *could have been* handled with application programming), and
have never solved a problem with a trigger. Maybe sometime in the next
decade not having those functions "stable". (To me, "stable" means I've
not rewitten it in the past three years. "Unstable" means "I might work
on this some more", not "broken".)

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