[mianos]

Mysql has its uses. Keeping a list of people you don't know on a social network is a great use case. Recording cat video URLS is another. Keeping track of money is not a good use case for mysql. Simple as that. My favourite is this one is the correlated subquery bad query plan selection: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=9090 "It's not a bug, it's a feature". You can always find a way to work around this stuff, or you can use postgres or another db that considers thi stuff important.