In Spotting the Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, Frank Mash writes about a specific person who is spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt about MySQL.Now, this always gets me, especially with MySQL. For how long will MySQL be the bastard stepchild of the database world? Because really, it's been a full-fledged DBMS for at least 5 years. 10 years ago there were no transactions, but....that was 10 years ago! 10 years ago everyone made $100,000 per year, took 3 hour lunch breaks, played foosball in the office, coveting their IT stock and sat in massage chairs with Apple Cinema displays.How much have *you* changed in 10 years? Your digital world? 10 years ago we paid for text messages by the character, which is why we came up with rlly abbr wrds like kthxbye! and OMG, LOL, ROFL and my favorite, ROFLPMP -- because it makes me giggle whenever I meet a professional Project Manager who has PMP as a suffix.Whoops, mini-rant aside....don't hate MySQL for the wrong reasons. There are plenty of reasons to hate MySQL. For one, the hack called replication, particularly the binlog-do-db hack -- replicating commands not on the basis the database you're affecting, but on the basis of the database you're in at the time. For another, the fact that the query match has to match text exactly, sensitive to whitespace and case changes.But hating MySQL because "it sucks" or because "it doesn't have blah feature" -- which, 9 times out of 10, it has -- is just wrong.