<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Aug 9, 2005, at 1:14 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">MySQL is great if you read the manual and use it the way it's meant to be used.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">People can go out and buy a car and if they don't use it properly they get themselves in a lot of trouble.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>It's not practical to make a perfect, idiot proof car (not that I would want to drive one anyway), why should we expect open source databases to be perfect and suitable for all usage scenarios?</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>This goes back to what Peter was saying at Cluecon... "Use the right tool for the job"</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>/b</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>