Re: 12 Silver Bullets

On Thursday 16. August 2007, David Fetter wrote:

>On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 11:47:12AM -0400, Robert Treat wrote:

>> The windows default table type for mysql is innodb, which is ACID.
>> Since > 50% of thier users work on windows (perhaps not deploy, but
>> do development/testing) this means that most of them are getting
>> ACID out of the box as well.
>
>Until they move to production on Linux, *BSD or Solaris, at which
>point all the stuff that worked on the development boxes starts
>breaking--silently, as characterizes MySQL--on prod boxes.
>
>This qualifies, not as a "feature," but as a really severe gotcha.

Right. Most web hotels that offer MySQL only support MyISAM tables.
Guess what happens if you try to create a table of type InnoDB in a
database that only has MyISAM installed?, Yeah, it silently creates
an 'ACID-free' MyISAM table.

http://sql-info.de/en/mysql/database-definition.html#2_4
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