RE: [PHP-WIN] mssql and php4

>-----Original Message----- >From: Tomasz Abramowicz [mailto:tomasz@spin.it] [...] >check out www.mysql.com >(or you maybe a really big bubu in your DB structure) Cutted from "www.mysql.com" "Why use MySQL? MySQL is very fast, reliable, and easy to use. If that is what you are looking for, you should give it a try. " The case against MySQL: If you want to develop data independent applications, and do information hiding within you applications, then MySQL is not the choice. Personally will not hesitate a second to trade performance in speed if I can achieve a higher maintenance goal. It is a well know fact that the development and installation cost is just a fraction of the total life time cost of a system. Any responsible developer has to take these fact in account, when they choice the platform for their database system. Also there does NOT exists "a right way" to do things. A good design is a relative thing, since one has to know what is said in the requirement specification of the system. For example in a real-time system I would not hesitate is some cases to trade clarity in favor of speed, but on the other hand, in some other cases I might very well trade speed against clarity. Any one who claims that this or that system is "the best" without being able to telling from with point of view it is "the best", does not know what they are talking about or are trying to humbug you.