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by The_Colonel 602 days ago
Not having a boolean data type is IMHO just an annoyance, not comparable to the lack of transactional DDL.

But to the point, people often use this point to claim that MySQL is a toy database, not usable for real world production use. I use Oracle as a counterpoint, which also has a lot of warts but is pretty much an archetype of an enterprise-grade DB engine.