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On Donnerstag, 13. März 2008, Scott Marlowe wrote:
| My real complaint with InnoDB is it's a red headed step child.  If
| mysql supported only innodb, it would be a very different database,
| and probably a bit simpler as well.  no need to worry about how you
| state fk-pk relationships (currently column level references are
| silently dropped for innodb OR myisam).  If there was a run time
| switch that said "use only innodb and use syntax that's sane" I'd
| probably be willing to test that out.

To be fair, MySQL-5 has such a switch (kind of):

  http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/faqs-sql-modes.html

You can set the @@sql_mode variable to a value, that MySQL almost behaves
like standard SQL (I've not tested this by myself, though).

Ciao,
Thomas

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