Gail Shaw wrote:
> "Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
> news:4763b9d9$1@news.povray.org...
>> Tom Galvin wrote:
>>
>>>> I'm going to build [yet another] helpdesk application.
>>>>
>>> Then mysql is more than adequate to the task.
>> I disagree.
> 
> Why is it not? What features do you need that the latest MySQL doesn't
> support?

I'm sure MySQL is great if you just want to catelogue your CD 
collection. But if you're going to have multiple people access it at 
once, you need transactions or you'll end up with a data integrity 
nightmare.

(In this instance, it also needs to be possible to back up the database 
without shuting it down. And to recover if there's a crash. And all 
those other kinds of things.)

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