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I think that's the sort of thing most people take for granted. It really shocked me to see that Mysql didn't have that.

transactional DDL for granted? Not at all! Oracle doesn't support that AFAIK. May be you were thinking about transactional DML?

Huh, weird. I don't know Oracle much at all... it seems that it does some things amazingly well, and others abominably. Strange beast.

Oracle silently issues an implicit commit after each DDL statement. I think it kills a kitten each time.

Web development is like a fashion industry. Just because it is popular it doesn't mean it has the functionalities.

The functionality for fashion is "makes you look great."