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by EdwardDiego 1938 days ago
I still remember the "good" ol days when the default MySQL engine was MyISAM. Even after InnoDB became the default, a lot of people were still configuring it for MyISAM for their 30 user webapp because they'd heard it was faster, and besides, you can ensure data integrity in code, right?

I made a bit of money freelancing on "my database for my LAMP stack app is corrupt!" issues by a) demonstrating that InnoDB wouldn't slow down their webapp in any measurable form and then b) trying to save and normalise as much data as possible.