Comments on: GROUP_CONCAT http://daryl.learnhouston.com/2005/12/06/group_concat/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:21:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Mike http://daryl.learnhouston.com/2005/12/06/group_concat/#comment-1628 Mike Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 #comment-1628 God (irony noted) I miss MySQL. All these years I thought Oracle was the ultimate, and had things I could never dream of... and now I have the reality. Oracle has *less* functions than MySQL and even MS SQL... no cool new stuff like group_concat. Over the years, not having subselects and procedures I leared to make in alone in the desert with just my knife and me... now back in the city I see these people over desiging every query and something taking 6 seconds is considered good if not amazing. I feel like the only person in the room, who is shrinking as he screams "Should we really be putting all our app logic in our data layer?!?!?" I still read the MySQL release notes... 5 looks so damn cool... God (irony noted) I miss MySQL. All these years I thought Oracle was the ultimate, and had things I could never dream of… and now I have the reality. Oracle has *less* functions than MySQL and even MS SQL… no cool new stuff like group_concat. Over the years, not having subselects and procedures I leared to make in alone in the desert with just my knife and me… now back in the city I see these people over desiging every query and something taking 6 seconds is considered good if not amazing. I feel like the only person in the room, who is shrinking as he screams “Should we really be putting all our app logic in our data layer?!?!?”

I still read the MySQL release notes… 5 looks so damn cool…

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