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MySQL 5.0 Candidate Released
Brian "Krow" Aker (Former Slashdot Coder now MySQL Employee) writes "I am pleased to announce the release candidate for MySQL 5.0. This version has been in development now for three years. We have worked to add update-able views, ansi stored procedures, and triggers. In addition we have added a number of fun features that we are experimenting with and resolved issues with bad data inserts (which personally annoyed the hell out of me when we rewrote Slashdot a couple of years back so I am happy to see this issue go away). We look forward to feedback on the candidate and will show some love for bug reports."
Call up Microsoft, I'm sure they'd love to sponsor the study.
Ah yes, it's very important that you be serious about your databases of free porn. I'm sure your customers are very concerned (:
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with Postgres performance? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a 4 way Xeon box running Postgres for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to do a simple select from a single indexed table with only 300 rows. 20 minutes. At home, with MySQL on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this rig, the same operation would take about 2 seconds. If that.
In addition, during this select, no other queries are accepted. And everything else on the box has ground to a halt. Even 'top' is straining to keep up.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working with Postgres, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen Postgres that has run faster MySQL. MySQL on a 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than Postgres on a 900 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that Postgres is a superior architecture.
Postgres addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use Postgres over other faster, cheaper, more stable database servers like MySQL.
Hyperbole is the worst thing ever.
The solution to that is simple. Include Oracle and put it dead last in every category. Explain that the license doesn't allow testing so therefore it didn't even get out of the gate in the tests.
Slashdot: Failed Car Analogies. Amateur Lawyering. Anecdote Battles.
It was bad enough that Apple fans who used to tout the advantages of PowerPC will now fall in lock step with the merits of Intel technology, crazy that Republicans in America now defend deficits and Democrats now demand cuts in government spending. Even me, a lifelong Windows Troll, am now running Linux at home.
But this is the last straw!
MySQL turned a simple, lightweight and fast database into a gigantic, feature rich behemoth. Now all the MySQL fans that used to defend its lack of features on the basis of its performance and executable size will now defends its executable size on the basis of features.
The world has just gone insane.
This is my sig.
I'm can't wait to see the new MySQL now with its "fun features". I'm totally intrigued as to what a fun feature might be in a data base? Will it start replying to queries in style of the Swedish Chef? Bork ,Bork, Bork!
Still great work from the MySQL team.
Where would /. be without them? Probably /.ed!