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Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email by tomnipotent on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @02:07PM (#47591268)
I love Postgres in 2026, but it really was not a viable enterprise option before 2010. MySQL had decent binlog replication starting in 2000 which made up for a lot of the horrible warts it had.
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Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email by bombcar on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @03:47PM (#47592479)
mysql was great in 2000 if you knew all the foot guns to avoid and set it up correctly (and not just what sounded correct).
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Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email by tomnipotent on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @10:41PM (#47596145)
Not to mention there was Percona, and both Google & Facebook contributed a number of patches that made monitoring MySQL top notch (such as finding slow running queries, unused indexes, locks etc.).
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