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by davidw 5344 days ago
I think that's the sort of thing most people take for granted. It really shocked me to see that Mysql didn't have that.
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samuel 5344 days ago
transactional DDL for granted? Not at all! Oracle doesn't support that AFAIK. May be you were thinking about transactional DML?
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davidw 5343 days ago
Huh, weird. I don't know Oracle much at all... it seems that it does some things amazingly well, and others abominably. Strange beast.
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jpitz 5343 days ago
Oracle silently issues an implicit commit after each DDL statement. I think it kills a kitten each time.
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treenyc 5344 days ago
Web development is like a fashion industry. Just because it is popular it doesn't mean it has the functionalities.
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ebiester 5344 days ago
The functionality for fashion is "makes you look great."
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