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Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email by da_chicken on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @02:23PM (#47591462)
Really, you've always had to be careful with MySQL. It really was the PHP of RDBMSs.

The silent "SHOW WARNINGS" system, nonsense dates like Feb 31, implicit type conversions like converting strings to 0s, non-deterministic group by enabled by default, index corruption, etc.

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Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email by makeitrain on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @07:09AM (#47599307)
Good enough for Wordpress.
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Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email by augusto-moura on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @10:16AM (#47601246)
We are circling back to PHP, aren't we?
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Re:Oracle slashes 30k jobs with a cold 6 a.m. email by makeitrain on Friday April 03, 2026 @08:48PM (#47634344)
We never left
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