Joel Spolsky on languages for web programming

MySQL is optimized for one thing: applications that don’t give a damn
about data integrity. Like most PHP applications.

If you want something that actually protects your data, use something
else. Hell, SQLite is better than MySQL for that.
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Ok, it is obvious that you don’t like MySQL that much, but I am really
interested
in technical details why do you make such claims.
Can you provide some?

Regards,
Rimantas

Can you provide some?
MySQL Gotchas

And to be fair…

http://sql-info.de/postgresql/postgres-gotchas.html

Don’t know how up todate it still is, but you can read them to find out
:slight_smile: