Comments on: Study: Few bugs in MySQL database

The open-source database has only 97 flaws and has been well-coded, an analysis finds.

German?

"MySQL, the German company that develops and maintains the MySQL database"

MySQL is a Swedish company based in Uppsala.

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"Only?"

Try sell a car with "only" 97 flaws and see if ANYONE will buy your car. Give me a break.

they do sell cars with problems!!

Hey Bob u ever looked through a dealership recall/service manual for a car?? i have seen the dealership manual for a 'big' car company and they had well over 97 known problems on every one of there cars!! - they just dont make it public!!!!

[Bill Dautrive]

Windows has thousands of bugs

And it is good enough for you

[hion2000]

It's far fewer than anything out there....

MySQL is the world's leading database system out there, and you don't see it getting hacked to death.

This article is intentionally (and correctly I might add) implying that all other databases have far more than 96 flaws!

[David Arbogast]

Inconclusive

As we all should know by now, "flaws" are not limited to mistakes in coding. This label is also used for mistakes in logic that only become apparent through the use of an application. If you ask me, refusing to support stored compiled queries is a flaw. But there are certainly users who will go beyond the intent of the developers and discover real problems that no code analysis would have found.

[hion2000]

True

...and what may be considered a flaw by some people might have been intended by the developers, or vice versa.

[Johnny Mnemonic]

It is not that simple

Complex systems will always have flaws. It is a
matter of physics. If one patches a flaw it may
introduce another flaw. Even if a system is stable
it will inevitably fail. The second law of
thermodynamics sates this clearly. In a larger sense,
all things tend toward chaos. I don't think you
would ever use an airliner if you knew how many
flaws existed in it (known and unknown flaws). But,
as many studies have stated, the open-source
development model produces much better quality.
The reasons are varied, but, the primary one is
human nature. When submitting something that will
be evaluated by a large group, one tends to do
your homework before committing.

[George Cole]

known and unknown flaws

http://www.analogstereo.com/jaguar_xj6_owners_manual.htm

[System Tyrant]

This is silly

I love it when people compare MySQL to Oracle or MS SQL Server. I have no doubt that MySQL's long term goal is to offer a truly enterprise capable RDBM, but as of today they don't have it. However since we're on the subject I would like Oracle and Microsoft to put their code up to the test. I have a feeling they are both going to have more than 97 errors. Or if you like they are going to have more errors per every thousand lines of code.

For what MySQL is today it is a very capable RDBM. It lacks a lot of what enterprise user would need, but is a well developed application. A lot can be said for Oracle and SQL Server. They are two very powerful RDBM's.

True enough this report probably is an accurate real world simulation of flaws. I can't believe the way some have treated this though. They act like 97 flaws in MySQL is unacceptable. How many flaws do you think the other would have?