John Nichel wrote:
Even if his ISP doesn't have MySQL installed, he can still install it in his _home_ directory.
Don't understand that - either you are setting up a site on an ISP or you are working from home. Not many ISP's allow you to install applications on their system?
I have yet to use an ISP that you couldn't setup and run things like MySQL in your home directory. Now I've only used four different hosting providers in the past 7 years (one for the past 4), but on all of them, I could do this.
Convenient? Like what, PostgreSQL? Oracle? MSSQL? Progress? Flat files? Maybe I'm biased, but for handling data like this, I don't find anything more convenient than MySQL.
This caught me at a bad time - another customer I was trying to hook decided that he HAS to use MSSQL/ASP even after we gave him a live demo of his finished system on PHP and Firebird. We don't get any money, and yet he is prepared to pay 10 times as much for something that will not now be live until next year. MySQL is in the same camp - hook the customer and sting them for licence fees later :)
I'm just glad it's been dropped from PHP5, where SQLite is the flavour of the month - that I can compete with ;)
It hasn't been dropped from php5 in the sense that you cannot use php5 and MySQL together, it's just not bundled. But this doesn't change the convenience of it. You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a php developer who has at least some grasp on MySQL, and the amount of information on using PHP/MySQL on the web is staggering. That in itself makes it more convenient than any other data storage/retrieval system out there.
I'll stop now before this becomes a MySQL vs. others, 'free as in beer' vs. 'free as in speech' war. ;)
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