[plug] MySQL versus NT SQL Server

[Leon Brooks]

Nick Bannon wrote:
> 
> On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 10:14:33AM +0800, Christian wrote:
>> I strongly recommend that you don't use [MySQL] if
>> you require any real RDBMS features -- it simply doesn't have them.
>> Even Access actually has these sorts of features.

> Microsoft sells at least three database products - Visual FoxPro (for
> programming), Access (for clicky pointy officey sorts of things) and
> SQL Server (oh, you actually want something decent?), and I can only
> find claims of that sort about SQL Server.

Uh, you'll find claims of that sort about Access here and there, but
they're about on a par with NT's "journalling" filesystem. In other
words, true most of the time. Would _you_ use a parachute from
Microsoft? How about brake pads?

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