Article on the future of Python

[Ian Kelly]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, MySQL has definitely improved. There was a time when its
> unreliability applied to all your data too, but now you can just click
> in InnoDB and have mostly-real transaction support etc. But there's
> still a lot of work that by requirement happens outside of
> transactions - MySQL doesn't let you roll back DDL, for instance.

Neither does Oracle, for that matter.  I don't really see any reason
why DDL *should* be transactional in nature.  If your web app is
issuing DDL statements, then you're probably doing something wrong.