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MySQL 4 - Is it Stable?

Posted by Cliff on from the RDBMS-assessments dept.

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?

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  1. First Goat! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  2. Re:All I want for Christmas... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Let's not figure those triggers!

  3. Important Information about the censorship scandal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    version 1.3, (last updated 1st August 2002)

    Note to moderators : Do not moderate this post down, if you do then you support the editors stance on censorship and you support the end of free speech and support evil organisations like Microsoft, RIAA, MPAA and laws like the CBTBA and DMCA. Moderating this post will only waste mod points, and will not work!

    Sign this petition, let your voice be heard!

    Slashdot is using censorship! It is trying to eridicate free and open discussion like we know slashdot to be, it has the following RESTRICTIONS in place to Censor you

    They claim they don't, but they do, wonder why their are so many trolls, crapflooders and lamers on slashdot, because they are fighting for their rights! Slashdot is trying to silence the trolls. Remove the filters, the trolls get bored, and slashdot will be troll free!
    • Lameness filters (It blocks a lot of legitmate posts)
    • Unnessary posting delays. Hasnt taco learned to touch type? A lot of posts are typed in less than 20 seconds and it is a ANNOYING DELAY! 2 minute ban? Come on, so some are faster then others, big deal, some people have more to say than others
    • Broken moderation system, The whole point is to sort the gems from the crap, yet a lot of posts designed to make a LIVELY DISCUSSION are MODERATED as flamebait! Come on, not everyone likes X, but just because some one bashes it dosent mean its Flamebait. Flame bait is more useful for DIRECT INSULTS and not legitmate discussions.
    The "troll" moderation reason is fragmented and broken, why? Because they are trying to use an obsolete usenet term on a realtime discussion, "trolls" can cover a huge blanket of ideas.
    • Crapfloods, a meaningless flood of random letters or text, which the lameness filter does a crappy job at trying to stop, besides trolls have written tools using the opensource slashcode to generate crapfloods which bypass the filter
    • Links to offensive websites, the most common one is known a http://www.goatse.cx, a awful site which shows a bleeding anus being stretched on the front page. Trolls sneak these links in by posting messages that look legitimate, but infact are sneaky redirects to the site. Common examples include rd.yahoo.com, www.linux-kernel.tk, goatsex.cjb.net, and googles "Im feeling lucky".
    • Trying to break slashdot, this is actually a good thing, as it helps test slashdot for bugs. Famous examples include the goatse.cx javascript pop-up, the pagewidening post and the browser crashing post!
    Subnet banning, this bans a user unless they email jamie macarthy with their mp5ed ipids. This is unfair, and banning a subnet BLOCKS A WHOLE ISP SOMETIMES, and not that individual user! This can cause chaos! But real trolls use annoymous proxys to get around this so THIS JUST BANS LEGITMATE USERS! Also, they are trying to censor some anoymous proxies, mainly from countrys like africa, so this yet more DISCRIMINATION! If you try and post before the ban is over it gets extended.

    Pink page of Death, This censors people who use legitmate proxys or firewalls. It also blocks serivces like CgiProxy and filters like t'inator.

    The Bitchslap! An unethical punishment which is applied to moderators who fight censorship against this site! In addition the Editors use their un-limited mod points to create a communist style censored discussion on slashdot! This one sided discussion makes trolls more determined

    But, the issue that concerens us the most, is the COMMENT QUOTA. A discrimatory system that stiffles discussion, cripples the community and will ultimateley destroy slashdot unless it is removed! Annoymous cowards are allowed only 10 posts a day! This is unethical! Users with negative karma only get two! That is DISCRIMINATION! How would you like to only be able to speak once a day, just because of the color of your skin. That would be racism, and slashdot is discrimitating on people just because of a negative number in a database! BOYCOTT SLASHDOT! LET THEM DIE!

    We wan't these stupid useless restrictions REMOVED! This comment will be posted again and again until it does!

    Inportant imformation for users
    Boycott slashdot, they are pissing over their community, they are becoming like the RIAA and MICROSOFT! Do NOT TOLERATE THIS SHIT! Here are some real news for nerds sites. We don't need slashdot, slashdot deserves to die!

    MSNBC
    BBC NEWS
    News.com
    Linux online
    Linux daily news network
    Weird news from dailyrotten.com
    Trollaxor, news for trolls, they are real people too!
    CNN.com
    New york times (free registration required)
    LINUX.com
    News forge
    K5
    Mandrake forum
    Toms hardware
    The register
    Kde dot news
    The linux kernel Archives
    Adequecy
    Xfree86.org

    There are hundreds more, But this is where slashdot STEALS THE MAJORITY OF its "news" from.

    Proxy sites
    Anti proxy
    Jmarshalls Cgiproxy,which has been pink paged!

    Infamous Trolls
    Wipo Troll
    Klerck

    Punish them, here are their emails, spam them, flame them goatse them!
    Rob malda
    Jamie Macarthy
    ChrisD
    Hemos
    Micheal
    Pudge

    The others ones apperantly dont have an e-mail, probably because ROB MALDA IS PRETENDING HE IS JOHN KATZ.

    Thank you for reading this, please feel free to repost this information, please reply to add your comments, fight slashdot and its CENSORSHIP

    Don't forget to sign the petition!
  4. Here's an Idea.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...Why don't you fucking go test it out yourself, you lazy bastard! Slashdot is not your personal resource for tech questions.

  5. Duh by nebby · · Score: 1, Troll

    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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    1. Re:Duh by Quila · · Score: 1, Troll

      Here troll, here troll, here's a biscuit, goood boy ... [YANK!]

  6. Re:All I want for Christmas... by duncangough · · Score: 1, Troll

    No contest, use Sybase

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  7. Re:All I want for Christmas... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    free and simple are the only 2 reasons that mySQL is popular with linux users... ...because most linux users are cheap and simple.

    Linux is for bitches.

  8. Re:umm... because.... by aminorex · · Score: 1, Troll

    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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  9. Re:You're living in the 1970s by aminorex · · Score: 1, Troll

    : 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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