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Add CommentFiled in: MySQLBy Vikram Vaswani May 01, 2002 A Matter Of Choice There's something patently unfair going on here. For some reason, almost every PHP tutorial on the planet makes the implicit assumption that if you're using PHP with a database, that database is going to be MySQL. Now, I have absolutely nothing against MySQL - I think it's a great product, and I use it fairly often in my development activities. However, it's not the only good open-source RDBMS out there - most developers have been...n
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