Yes, my arguments may be technical in nature, however the arguments in the article are worse than straw-man arguments. I'm surprised the author didn't mention that MySQL doesn't cost $20,000 per processor, therefor must be bad. Even given the intended audience (who, as you suggested, may not be extraordinarily technical) the pro-MySQL author did a much better job laying reasonable arguments.
You mention Excel jokingly, but I know some companies which maintain large databases worth of information inside of Excel (statistics on hundreds of applications for hundreds of devices on dozens of networks, reported daily ) because no one wants to write a script to input data into a database.
Someone need's to slap this author with large trout. There are many reasons NOT to use MySQL, of which this article touches on only one. For example: --Innodb scaling across multiple processors (MySQL bug ID 15815, still not completely fixed) --Limit of 1024 current transactions ( MySQL bug 26590) --Terrible performace when running MySQL Cluster --Single threaded mysqldump exporting and importing (recently fixed in 5.1) --Single threaded replication (making many changes? Don't count on it if you're running replication) --Poor handling of subselects --ineffecient ORDER by and GROUP BY --Poor quality filesort algortythm (want to see your $20,000 dollar database server die?) --better performance in 4.1.x
Let's also mention that 5.1 has been out in beta for years now. When is it ever going to ship? MySQL now is proclaiming fixes in 5.2, and 5.1 isn't even on the board to ship yet.
With all that, and more, I'm surprised this author could only come up with "it isn't made by Oracle" and "product mateurity."
*disclosure -- yes, I play with MySQL databases all day long in large high use production environments. MySQL is great for small systems, but there -are- some problems when running on large enterprise grade systems. It'll get there
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Everyone knows that sound is a wave. If you output the opposite negative waveform of a sound, the noise is cancelled out. It's the same with light. This has been demonstrated for the last 200 years. High school physics, people. Also, there have been devices to do this for years. Cosco has them installed near their refrigerators. However, they only work well when the noise is a constant humm - a noisy crowd would still be noisy, however a fan blade will be a bit quieter. Granted, interesting story, however old, antiquated boring technology.
Something microsoft has been (trying) to do for years. You just need a shell account on some reliable server sitting somewhere. They're pretty cheap, too.
That's because Freebsd is a well designed, userfriendly structured operating system, built by professional coders. Linux is a piece of trash operating system thrown together using shitty spare parts built by code junkies who failed their comp sci classes. Not to mention bug ridden shoddy VM and tcp/ip stacks. All aside, FreeBSD makes a better system, but Linux markets better. Oh well, it won't be the first time a better OS has lost (think VMS)
SGI is going bankrupt and hasn't released any new innovative products in years. I'd hope a new(er) sun box could beat them. It's only been on the drawning board for about two and a half years now. Then again, when they made a superiour operating system, they couldn't beat Microsoft. When they made a superiour processor, they couldn't beat Digital or Intel. So they probably won't beat SGI. As Sun is going right now, they themselves probably wont be around in a year or two. Thank you linux!
released today in the San Francisco Chronicle. Read it over at sfgate.com. I/m surprised two independent media organizations would review the same company about the same thing and release it in the same general time frame! Amazing~
it should be fine. You wont need Inet access on these lines - just plain point to point leased line from your telco. My previous company used to do this. Many other large companies still do. Basically, they provide you with the equivilant to a really long patch cable. I'd suggest setting up all your branch offices to point to a single master office, where your bridge/gateway for inet access is. That way you can filter/proxy/monitor/whatever you want, and still have a secure network
Write their optimized code in ASM. Who needs fancy c++ compilers/et al. "But Tairan, do you know how hard it is to write perl in ASM?" you ask? My answer: use a real language:)
Seriously, anything that is going to need the optimizations that this new compiler does, should probably be written in ASM anyway. Your 'hello world' and 'count and increment an array' programs are not going to run any faster. Don't bother.
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12 million or 1.2 million? There is quite a difference. I wonder how much of this will fall back down to already ultra-secure BSD versions, such as OpenBSD and NetBSD?
I'm surprised something like this got through. Its kinda like asking 'I'm looking for a way to share files between my multiple machines, and I don't want to use floppy disks any more."
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Yes, my arguments may be technical in nature, however the arguments in the article are worse than straw-man arguments. I'm surprised the author didn't mention that MySQL doesn't cost $20,000 per processor, therefor must be bad. Even given the intended audience (who, as you suggested, may not be extraordinarily technical) the pro-MySQL author did a much better job laying reasonable arguments.
You mention Excel jokingly, but I know some companies which maintain large databases worth of information inside of Excel (statistics on hundreds of applications for hundreds of devices on dozens of networks, reported daily ) because no one wants to write a script to input data into a database.
Someone need's to slap this author with large trout. There are many reasons NOT to use MySQL, of which this article touches on only one. For example:
--Innodb scaling across multiple processors (MySQL bug ID 15815, still not completely fixed)
--Limit of 1024 current transactions ( MySQL bug 26590)
--Terrible performace when running MySQL Cluster
--Single threaded mysqldump exporting and importing (recently fixed in 5.1)
--Single threaded replication (making many changes? Don't count on it if you're running replication)
--Poor handling of subselects
--ineffecient ORDER by and GROUP BY
--Poor quality filesort algortythm (want to see your $20,000 dollar database server die?)
--better performance in 4.1.x
Let's also mention that 5.1 has been out in beta for years now. When is it ever going to ship? MySQL now is proclaiming fixes in 5.2, and 5.1 isn't even on the board to ship yet.
With all that, and more, I'm surprised this author could only come up with "it isn't made by Oracle" and "product mateurity."
*disclosure -- yes, I play with MySQL databases all day long in large high use production environments. MySQL is great for small systems, but there -are- some problems when running on large enterprise grade systems. It'll get there
Community Colocation Project is part of the Online Policy Group which provides Free (as in speech AND beer) hosting to any individual or non profit entity. They're the peoeple who fought Diebold, refuse to work with unacceptable takedown notices, and in general, are here to host these kinds of sites.
I've been using FreeBSD for quite a while! Linux is only now catching up? ..Not surprising..
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Something microsoft has been (trying) to do for years. You just need a shell account on some reliable server sitting somewhere. They're pretty cheap, too.
Woops, I tink I just lost a karma point.
SGI is going bankrupt and hasn't released any new innovative products in years. I'd hope a new(er) sun box could beat them. It's only been on the drawning board for about two and a half years now. Then again, when they made a superiour operating system, they couldn't beat Microsoft. When they made a superiour processor, they couldn't beat Digital or Intel. So they probably won't beat SGI. As Sun is going right now, they themselves probably wont be around in a year or two. Thank you linux!
Seriously, anything that is going to need the optimizations that this new compiler does, should probably be written in ASM anyway. Your 'hello world' and 'count and increment an array' programs are not going to run any faster. Don't bother.
12 million or 1.2 million? There is quite a difference. I wonder how much of this will fall back down to already ultra-secure BSD versions, such as OpenBSD and NetBSD?
halfway down the page - Some stuff about this 'GAC'
And something about the test itself.
I'm surprised something like this got through. Its kinda like asking 'I'm looking for a way to share files between my multiple machines, and I don't want to use floppy disks any more."
reply - fixed now~