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Mysql has had quite solid transaction support for many, many years. It hasn't been the play database you think it is for a very long time. This seems like an important topic to you so you should seriously consider looking in to it.

He was being sarcastic. It's the kind of thing people keep saying even though it hasn't really been true for a while.

MySQL was great, we all loved it. It allowed many real businesses to make real money without the overhead. Then the oracle thing happened. In the end they are all just tools. Its not really interesting to have a religious debate over tools.

No transactions support?

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/ansi-diff-transaction...