[FRIAM] Subject: Re: Friam Digest, Vol 180, Issue 3

[uǝlƃ ☣]

Not to pile on to MySQL or anything.  But I just landed on this:

https://medium.com/@adamhooper/in-mysql-never-use-utf8-use-utf8mb4-11761243e434
> My [Hooper's] take-away lessons
> 
>  1) Database systems have subtle bugs and oddities, and you can avoid a lot of bugs by avoiding database systems.
>  2) If you need a database, don’t use MySQL or MariaDB. Use PostgreSQL.
>  3) If you need to use MySQL or MariaDB, never use “utf8”. Always use “utf8mb4” when you want UTF-8. Convert your database now to avoid headaches later.



On 06/06/2018 11:10 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Robert writes:
> 
> “Remember that Oracle acquired MySQL.  It is now a free product (likely with no meaningful updates, not sure) but with an option to upgrade to supported Oracle extensions at a premium.”
> 
> MySQL is distributed under the General Public License, so all it takes is someone to fork it and distribute their own version, like MariaDB.
> Such a group can take whatever work Oracle does on the core and put it in their fork.
> Finding a motivation and money to do that is the problem.  I haven’t used either for years because I came to the conclusion that Postgres was better.
> And if you want small and fast, there’s Sqlite3.


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