Whatever happened to Mini SQL?

Posted on | December 23, 2008 |

Does anyone remember Mini SQL (or mSQL)? A few years ago it was a solid contender for MySQL and some even considered it slightly superior over MySQL.

The site is still there, but it looks like it hasn’t changed since years. And the PHP manual still has a chapter on it, as there is still the possibility to use the extension and connect to a Mini SQL database.

To put everything in context, take a look at the FAQ page (1997!):

How is this FAQ prepared?
The FAQ is written in HTML and proofread using version 3.01Gold of the Netscape Navigator running under Solaris 2.5.1.

Great stuff! Does anyone actually still use this?

UPDATE (2009-03-25): It was finally thrown out of PHP core (at least from 5.3.0RC1 onward).

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