Hi,
My posting was never intended to cricitise anybody's choice of SQL server, so my apologises to anybody offended by it. I agree with you that choice is the greatest factor of all. If you don't need all the fancy gubbins or compliance of Postgres or SQL Server - that's fine. I still use PHP and MySQL for my web site heavily, because it's what I know and it was already installed for me (lazy bugger that I am!) :)
It's like email clients - not everybody uses Evolution, nor mutt, or Pine or whatever. You use whatever you need to get the job done. I prefer Evolution as it integrates really well into my company's mail system and I think it handles quoting and filtering extremely well for a Linux GUI mail client.
Regards,
Martyn
On 05 Aug 2001 16:16:15 +0100, Richard George wrote:
Lets's just recap here... first, it was Darren that named MySQL, not me, so I have no idea why I'm getting all the flack. Secondly, for my application, MySQL works fine, and I have absolutely no interest in installing a commercial solution such as Oracle or SQL server when I have no call for it. Maybe I could have used Postgres, but MySQL was the option available on the servers I was using. The day may come when the site grows enough that transactions, subselects etc are of use to me, but the way that site's written it could do with the excuse for a rewrite; I started it days after I first picked up the PHP manual, and have been retro-fixing it since.
Alternatively, by that point, MySQL might have developped these features anyway.
But everbody agrees that Postgres is the way to go..
I don't think you'll find that "everybody agrees" on anything, be it which OS, editor, distro, or mouse to use. Among its many benefits, open source software allows choice, and if I happen to make a choice - on a system that in no way affects you - then that's my call. Personally, I'd far rather make the wrong choice of my own volition, than blindly follow what someone's told me is the "One True Way".
I supported this combination because it works for me... it lets me get things done quickly and simply, and if I couldn't do that, the site wouldn't exist. You chose to use other tools, and that's fine; likewise I use other tools on other projects. The beauty lies in having the choice.
Richard
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