Hi Rod,

When I read your article about MySQL in CoDe (Nov/Dec 2003 "PDC Issue") I felt that it really was a veiled advertisement for SQL Server.

What you've written here has confirmed that in MY eyes. My thinking until I read this was that I must be wrong because the "Editor in Chief" in particular wouldn't stoop so low (it's his job to spot such in other articles and ensure they don't make it into the magazine). I was obviously wrong.

And since I am now communicating with you about the magazine, I also felt that it was wrong of you, in your "Hearts and Minds" editorial, to say both: "Earlier versions of Visual Basic .NET short circuited but Microsoft listened to the whining of VB6 developers on this issue and backed down and bloated the language" and "So yes, that's one of probably several ways that Visual Basic .NET is bloated.".
These statements are disturbing on several counts but I'll only discuss two:
1) Were C/C++ people so vocal and so public so you know for certain that C# was not in any way 'bloated' by pressure from its user base?
2) I would expect a magazine like CoDe to go to bat for developers who expose short-comings in any product/language/facility/feature and certainly not belittle them. You have a strange idea of "bloat" if it includes things that developers need to be able to do a good job, which by definition has to include optimal backwards compatibility.

Jim

>Hi Alan
> Actually MySQL falls way short of the mark in many areas.
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>Here's a short list of stuff missing: Triggers, Views, Cursors, Stored Procs.
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>Here's another list: you cant do hot backups of the database. You can if you use InnoDB but their hot backup costs around 1000.00
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>You dont have any type of analysis services (Data Warehouse stuff)
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>You dont have an agent for scheduling jobs.
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>And the list goes on....
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>MySQL is far from free. Heck their minimum support package is around 1500 for e-mail support. You can buuy the sql server support page for 2000 which includes 12 phone calls.
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>MySQL does have its place but it is not in the enterprise yet.
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>Rodman