MySQL Performance Example Was: Seriously, WTF?

[Denny]

On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 16:30 +0200, Abigail wrote:
> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 08:45:24PM +0100, Robbie Bow wrote:
> > 
> > MyISAM is a good choice for non-transactional tasks.
> 
> Yeah, but if you can't be bothered with transactions, why go into the
> trouble of using a database in the first place?

Because it's a storage system that can hold millions of bits of related
data in an easily interrogated and updated format which lots of
developers know how to interact with?