I can’t stand it, really. I’m using it at the moment only because I’m forced to. I can’t help considering it as a toy DB, especially comparing it to PostgreSQL or SQL Server or any other serious RDBMS. The last thing that hit my nerve is this bug. Come on… can’t it even handle foreign …
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Is MySQL bad for (open source) software quality?
I think so. Why? Because it’s basically a toy DBMS with too many non-standard behaviours. A lot of open source projects choose MySQL mainly because it’s widely available among hosting providers, while better RDBMS like PostgreSQL1 are hard to find. The real problem is, a lot of open source developer know very little about SQL …