You caught me red-handed. I had to scramble for this one, so I made some merciless (and arbitrary) cuts from my candidate items. Mea culpa. I’ll try to make up for it this week.

What would really do justice to all the DB2 stuff out there is a DB2-hip blogger doing an edition. Let’s see here, where can one be ? . . .

When sql_mode was decided on we were at a meeting in Germany with the SapDB team. It was Ann Harrison, Paul from Firebrird, myself, the SapDB team and a few others complaining loudly that this was a lousy idea.

There is no way to do sql_mode right, and it is built on a set of half truths about compatibilities.

It there were a set of pillars that made up the foundation of why Drizzle exists, this would be one of them.

If you are using MySQL, you should set the mode to “strict” and make sure you do it religiously on all of your databases.

Cheers,
-Brian

Thanks for fixing my typo! Learned today the difference between elusive and illusive…:)

Shlomi