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Gov't GSA Office goes MySQL
comforteagle writes "MySQL has won a five year contract with the US General Services Administration office putting it in yet another government office on top of NASA, the Dept. of Def., Los Alamos National Labs & the Census Bureau. This additional win allows around 70 Government customers to purchase and deploy MySQL."
Funny thing is between my last post... I had a slow response on my localhost and I did stop mysql service (on windows). And something weird happened... the column's type changed (a char(1) to a char(0) and I doubt I did change that by error). It happened on a table that indeed was supposed to be written at. Even thought the type changed from char(1) to char(0), the old data were still having one character inside. However... all the new data were empty string as the column specification changed. Quite scary... I am a perfectionnist, I try to slack off... but those kind of thing scare me when I see them in a software... Of course I did a NET STOP MySQL (service stop) on windows... but still... that could happen on our shared host server or is there something in mysql that could prevent this (i.e don't shutdown till the operation is finish?)
MySQL is on the GSA schedule - but thousands upon thousands of products are available on the GSA schedule. Just being on the GSA schedule isn't particularly dramatic, though. And the headline (and even the summary) are quite a bit more breathless and quite a bit less accurate than the real story.
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