Re: The MySQL/PHP pair

From: Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 06:26:25 GMT
Message-ID: <luGgd.441011$mD.362527_at_attbi_s02>


"Kenneth Downs" <firstinit.lastname_at_lastnameplusfam.net> wrote in message news:6oqqlc.8nm.ln_at_mercury.downsfam.net...
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> But you know, it seems that there is a large group of people out there
> developing against MySQL with PHP.

Sure. If you've got a little small scale app with 1-3 developers, only one way into or out of the data (via the app), this will work fine. It won't scale up from there, though.

> The logic seems to be that you need a
> barrier beyond which bad data cannot go, but when the app is deployed
> through the web, then that barrier is the web layer. If no user can
> possibly SQL in, then the overpowering lure of PHP/MySQL leads to the
> conclusion that biz logic can just go into the PHP and you get pretty fast
> to the Look Ma, It Works! stage.
>
> I just wonder if we have been unfair to MySQL.

As someone who has been working closely with MySQL for 3 yeras now, I am confident that the people who beat up on MySQL have been overly nice. MySQL in the enterprise is a disaster.

Marshall Received on Sat Oct 30 2004 - 08:26:25 CEST

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