-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/31/07 23:18, Danesh Daroui wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:54:01PM -0900, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: >> [snip] > Maybe MySQL is not the best database engine in the world but it is one > the best engines. I have worked on MySQL for several years and from four > years ago I have started to develop my own database engine inspired by > MySQL. During development of my own database engine (BromeliaSQL) I > realized the magical techniques which have been used in MySQL which are > unique. For example MySQL was (and maybe is) the only database engine > which allows you to read and write to a table which has been indexed > even by using B-Tree which is the most complex structure, at the same time.
ROTFLMAO. You have *got* to be kidding. *Every* RDBMS worth it's salt lets you concurrently access b-tree indexes. > About allowing corrupted data, it is not the responsibility of database > engine to verify if the data is valid or not since the database engine > only "Manages" data and not validate. Although, MySQL have a very very > powerful library of functions to validate and generate and validate date > and kind in any possible format. What a single-user attitude. Here's a nickel kid, go buy yourself some VT220s. It's always the app developer's responsibility to make sure that he inserts clean data. OTOH, any DBA worth his/her salt will *not* trust code monkeys to find their arses with both hands, a map and flashlight. Thus, we put up our own defenses against incompetent boobs. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFwYFWS9HxQb37XmcRAoA0AKDFmwwSuqO8+VBESeaEfBNx5mw3qQCeLW7b bS6Ibb3nDO39EzAK7BmXTjY= =OHw5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
