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Originally posted by sco08y
As for your big system, true, you can still do massive systems that rely on '60s technology, just like they did in the '60s. Smart money says you'll upgrade to Oracle when upgrades start to come in late because your team is ferreting out every last integrity check that's strewn throughout the application code becomes prohibitive.
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Umm, C is "60's technology." What do you think most other languages are built off of?
Besides I'm not against other databases. They have their uses. For what I do, MySQL works and it works well. You, however, sound fairly biased against it.
I just wanted to point out that your views of MySQL are not correct. It can, and does, work on a large scale. We've been running MySQL for 5 years in transaction processing with few problems. Maintenance is extremely simple. Plus, we don't have to pay the $1 million+ that Oracle would cost.
There are a few things I wish MySQL had, but nothing that can't be worked around with some good system design and ingenuity.