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Part of the popularity of the early MySQL was marketing. I hope I’m not wrong here, there was something written about MySQL people posting misinformation in forums. Another is the ease of having it up and running. Another was I think there was some IP address component to setting up users which made it look complicated

>>zaphir+(OP)
> there was something written about MySQL people posting misinformation in forums.

They were absolute liars of the first water back in the day, absolutely. In the 3.x era there were claims that transactions were only for people who didn't know how to program! You'd struggle to find most of the absolute nonsense that was being pushed, because it's mostly gone down various memory holes, but it was absolutely breathtaking.