![]() ![]() The lead author of MySQL, to make a long story short, gave us MariaDB so we can be sure it persists. When Oracle bought Sun, there was fear that MySQL might not be maintained because it was in competition to Oracle’s other data base products. I’m currently using MariaDB, a binary drop in replacement for MySQL. So watch out because what one SQL supports, another SQL might not, and Base is highly dependent on SQL specifics. There is a fair amount of language variability, even though there are standards for SQL. ![]() So you’ll want a way to protect yourself against a variety of things that can impact your data. ![]() To a lesser degree I’ve had an issue having to rewrite php code to move to the newer connector when the old one was being depreciated. I lost a huge custom built hierarchical code base many years ago that was in a btrieve data base because when I upgraded to the next version of windows the database server didn’t run anymore, and it was some months before I found this out, and I lost my way to recover it. I’ve struggled with data base language interoperability over the years. “Stability” can mean a number of things, it can mean software quality, it can mean provider surety (sometimes things do go away, like when a vendor gets swallowed up), or it might mean SQL language interoperability. ![]()
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