Class::DBI and stalinesque hiding of THE TRUTH

Aaron Trevena aaron.trevena at gmail.com
Mon Jun 26 09:05:06 BST 2006


On 23/06/06, Dave Cross <dave at dave.org.uk> wrote:
> Quoting Aaron Trevena <aaron.trevena at gmail.com>:
>
> > Nope. No views in MySQL, at least not 3 and 4, which is what most
> > people are using.
>
> Sad but true. I can't understand why so many people use a "relational
> database" which is lacking so many of the standard relational database
> features.

Apart from being quick to learn, easy to administer, bundled with
every linux distro, and with  several enterprise features that
postgres still lacks.

Also would you really use DB2 or Oracle for every project?

A.


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