Links against MySQL
Last Updated: 14-June-2018
- MySQL Gotchas
- Randal Schwartz - “PostgreSQL and MySQL - better explained”
- Randal Schwartz - “Misquoting JWZ about databases” - also see the commentary.
- Bagel Belly Blog:
- Smylers - When MySQL Bites: Quirks to Watch Out For
- Ovid: MySQL Bug of the Day: Right Joins
- Ovid: MySQL Pain of the Day - subqueries.
- Ido Kanner - “The Cry of the Dolphins” - about incompatibility between the various MySQL storage backends.
- Ovid: MySQL Bug of the Day - AUTO_INCREMENT keys lock the entire table.
- MySQL and BitKeeper - MySQL uses BitKeeper, which is a proprietary version control system controlled by an abusive company.
- “Sometimes MySQL Sucks so much that You Need PostgreSQL”
- drbrian: MySQL Sucks - some “lovely gems from the MySQL reference manual”.
- “Slashdot: Slimmed Down MySQL Offshoot Drizzle is Built for the Web” - the thread contains many insightful comments.
- “Pulling the MySQL Triggers” by Ovid.
- “An Unpleasant Surprise from MySQL” by Artyom Tonkikh (in Hebrew) (19-September-2008)
- “David Axmark Resigns From Sun” (08-October-2008)
- MySQL vs. PostgreSQL on WikiVS
- Coverage on Ido Kanner’s blog (in Hebrew).
- Ovid - The Daily MySQL Hate - TRUNCATE should not be DELETE
- Ovid - “Tests I should Not Have to Write (for MySQL)”
- Monty on MySQL 5.1 (01-December-2008)
- “MySQL 5.1 Released, Not Quite Up To Par” (01-December-2008)
- “Josh Berkus: Two Great Open Source Databases Comparison”
- “MySQL 5.1 and Development Models” (03-December-2008)
- “What do you think about case-sensitive databases?” - by jdavidb on use.perl.org (04-December-2008)
- “Today’s Database Nightmare” by Ovid on use.perl.org (24-February-2009)
- “MySQL Stupidity” on davorg’s use.perl.org blog (25-February-2009)
- Ovid: “Throwing Away All of My Trigger Work” (27-February-2009)
- Ovid: “Trigger and SUPER and Ovid’s *LIES*!” (02-March-2009)
- Ido Kanner: “Problems with MySQL Again” (in Hebrew) (02-March-2009)
- Some Abstract Type! - “MySQL 5.1 mysqlhotcopy and log tables: check your backup scripts!” (12-March-2009)
- Ido Kanner: “Why I find MySQL to be so bad” (15-March-2009)
- Slashdot: “Locating the Real MySQL” (30-March-2009)
- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: “Which SQL is MySQL?” (31-March-2009)
- LWN.net: “A Look at the MySQL Forks” (22-April-2009)
- “Sun Announces New MySQL, Michael Widenius Forks” - on Slashdot (23-April-2009)
- “Who Owns Commercial Open Source – and Can Forks Work?” - by Glyn Moody, on LinuxJournal (23-April-2009)
- “MySQL: Forked Beyond Repair?” - on OSNews.com (21-May-2009)
- “Has MySQL Forked Beyond Repair?” - on Slashdot (21-May-2009)
- “Widenius Warns Against MySQL Falling Into Oracle’s Hands” - on Slashdot (13-December-2009)
- “PostgreSQL 9.0 Released” - on Slashdot (20-September-2010).
- Artyom Tonkikh: “MySQL is indeed a toy - or rollback mysteriously does not work with InnoDB” - in Hebrew. (27-November-2010)
- Ovid: “My Top MySQL Gripes” - on blogs.perl.org (5-September-2012).
- grimoire.ca: “Do Not Pass This Way Again (Considering MySQL: Use something else.)” - an article similar to “PHP: a fractal of bad design” only for MySQL.
- “Things that annoy me in PHP and MySQL” - by Ido Kanner (in Hebrew) (17-October-2013).
- “In MySQL, never use ‘utf8’. Use ‘utf8mb4’.” - by Adam Hooper (13-May-2016).
- MySQL a “pretty poor database” says departing Oracle engineer • The Register - (06-December-2021).