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  • Learning how to use a database well is good advice. Never mind the relational model -- I've met many Oracle users and even DBAs who didn't seem to have a solid grasp of the transaction model and isolation levels. These are pretty fundamental things to know about your database.

    Your anti-MySQL rant is getting really out-of-date though. MySQL has had transactions and foreign keys in a GA release since March 2003, with the same MVCC locking model that Postgres and Oracle use. They've had a strict mode tha

    • The strict mode is barely a year old and MySQL, with their perpetuation of their "who needs valid data?" ideas has decided to make this optional. Why data integrity should be optional, I don't know, but this continual misunderstanding on their part (remember when they published that laughable anti-FK essay?) makes me extremely leery of them and their product. Also, you still can't attach triggers to views (something which hurt us at Kineticode and would have allowed MySQL to simulate something much closer

      • MySQL 5 reached beta in March 2005, over two years ago, and a production release in October 2005. The 5.1 production release should be happening pretty soon, and 5.2 is already available in alpha.

        One thing that might help you make a case for some urgency on upgrading to version 5 at work is that the other versions are now so old they have a "end of product life" notice on the MySQL web site.

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