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MySQL 4 - Is it Stable?
Shaklee3 asks: "I have been running version 3 of MySQL on the company's website for quite a while now. We recently ran into a problem where we needed the new features of version 4 that uses the UNION clause. We are running FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE and Apache 1.3.26. I know they reccomend not using it in a production environment yet, but from what I hear it is already being used on a few major websites. Does anyone have experience with version 4, and is it stable enough to run on a high traffic site?" If you feel MySQL isn't ready for prime-time, where specifically do you feel it needs improvement?
This is retarded.
Don't use MySQL if you need a full featured DB, because it lacks many things you need for data integrity. Only use MySQL for small apps. These features were left out so MySQL would be a few nanoseconds faster when scaled to Slashdot sized apps.
But, as stated, people should be using MySQL only for small applications, so speed should not be an issue.
So, in conclusion, you are all retarded and it never makes any sense to use MySQL. End of story.
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No, if you have SQL, it probably was written for
MySQL, so it probably runs on MySQL. There are
orders of magnitude more MySQL installations than
any other SQL RDB, and a lot more code being
written on MySQL than any other SQL RDB.
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: why not take advantage of it?
Because it sucks. Much as Windows 98se is a
great advance over DOS, yet it sucks much more
than DOS does.
Oracle is huge. Vast. Ponderous and complex.
That's just a bad design.
MySQL is the opposite. Fits on a floppy.
Installs in seconds. Runs well on a PIC chip.
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