Heh, yes, you're telling me. Support was added to help out the sales process (so they didn't need SQLServer installed on the laptops). So of course.. they go and sell with with MySQL.. *sigh*
As someone that has had to maintain production MySQL databases, let me tell you in no uncertain terms that we have since pulled support for MySQL, and recommended people upgrade to a real database.
One customer was getting failures every tuesday, thursday and Sunday at 7 past 6 in the evening. Can you believe it? Nothing in the error log. Turns out that if you do a backup of MySQL while it is running, the process exits. No message, no log, nothing. Just *poof*.
Mix that in with JDBC drivers that swap parameters between prepared statements, throw errors about max_packet_size exceeded, with a server that gives really poor error messages on configuration mistakes, and you have an amateur database.
That, and it ignores SELECT (...) LIMIT 1000 commands, at least if there are too many JOINs. We had one query (OK, not optimised) that took MySQL 25 minutes to complete. SQLServer did it in 6 seconds. Put the LIMIT 1000 (TOP 1000 in SQLServer), and SQLServer goes sub-second, MySQL takes... wait for it... 25 minutes.
Anything else needs mentioning? If you've got any skin in the game, steer well clear of MySQL. It's just not worth the pain.
It's the difference between a product and a bespoke application. All the existing posters are talking about problems that arise in bespoke applications, and how the nirvana (a product) has solved these.
Windows has many levels of user access. The administrators group is closest to the concept of 'root' in the world of unix, but it isn't identical. Local System is the real 'root' user, which you cannot log in as.
It's perfectly permissable to run Windows not as a root user. And like Linux, this causes problems, and will require you to escalate priveleges to do certain operations (think: mounting a network share which requires elevated access in linux, or binding to ports
I'm not claiming that it's got perfect security or that local escalation exploits don't exist, they do (Shatter attacks in particular!), but they also exist on all platforms. Time to take blinkers off, SlashBots.
Who writes this tripe? This hasn't been true in Windows for years! It seems if your only experience of Windows is Windows 95, then of course it's all going to seem silly, but really, get with the program.
Christians, moral people who support our President in the war on terror.
ELF and the other socialists should leave them alone, they would never do any thing like alter votes for goodness sake!
Electronic voting is coming, and I'd sure rather trust it to good, honest Christian Anericans who believe in absolutes like right and wrong than to a-moral atheists or some foreign company!
"I knew my god was bigger than his. I knew that my god was a real god and his was an idol." Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin
Poppycock. Christmas is only at the time of year that it is so as it would clash with the Saturnalia, a Roman festival. The idea was that you couldn't go to both, there by worshipping false gods.
Heh, I had that with a motorscooter, in Auckland, New Zealand.
I rang up the council, after I had sat for several cycles waiting for a right (think left) turn that never came. Eventually I ran the red light. The council told me that they were induction loops, and that I would need more metal in my vehicle to set it off. They suggested I attach some to the bottom of my scooter.
I never did that, just thought that if I drove at them quickly enough with what little metal I did have, I increased my chances of setting them off. Gives the brakes a good workout, too!
Our company as part of the terms of sale state that if the company goes under, the source becomes available to all licensed customers through an escrow.
Of course, I have no idea if it will be honoured:-)
And it get's better, you're allowed to base64 encode stuff too. So you could do that, or do something like have two parameters "secureMode" and then the rest of the url://MyServer/blah, which it won't detect.
You are right in that they do provide a workaround immediately. Cracks me up. Who says that Microsoft doesn't have a sense of humour? I think there are several people finding the whole thing very amusing.
Well, technically he's correct. The internet didn't break. Well, maybe that's because somewhere upstream of me someone's blocking the sitefinder service. So there was no breakage! Yay!
Crikey, there's a huuuuuge spelling mistake lying in the article text *just above me*. This one's a real beaut, too mate! It would be sick if you just fixed that up there...
</crocodile-hunter>
Votes to overturn the judge's order are expected mid-afternoon in both chambers, according to Republican leadership aides
Eh? In what kind of democracy can the government overturn a judge's ruling? I thought it was up to the legislative branch to make the laws, and the judicial branch to implement them. Am I missing something here??? Why doesn't this bother anyone else?
Actually ACID compliance is getting pretty darn good in databases like MySQL. Care to elaborate about what ACID compliance issues you have?
Bull pucky:
From someone who with their only deployment of MySQL into a live environment went completely pear shaped, MySQL crashing several times per day. The damned thing doesn't report ANYTHING to the error log, except "I'm starting up again, and oohhh look at all that corrupt data, I hope I can do something about that!". I would never touch the database again, not with a 10 foot bargepole.
We're dropping that pile of crap faster than you can click the hyperlink on the MySQL website which says it may take up to two weeks to get any kind of support even in the case of an emergency.
We're now using MSDE for low powered embedded installations that the MySQL crowd had pushed prior to this. Who would have thought, use the Microsoft solution because the open source one doesn't cut it.
Sorry, it's been a long week of conference calls and VPNs in the middle of the night because MySQL decided to crash once again.
MySQL isn't there, and it's lost all trust from anyone who knows about databases.
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Heh, yes, you're telling me. Support was added to help out the sales process (so they didn't need SQLServer installed on the laptops). So of course.. they go and sell with with MySQL.. *sigh*
One customer was getting failures every tuesday, thursday and Sunday at 7 past 6 in the evening. Can you believe it? Nothing in the error log. Turns out that if you do a backup of MySQL while it is running, the process exits. No message, no log, nothing. Just *poof*.
Mix that in with JDBC drivers that swap parameters between prepared statements, throw errors about max_packet_size exceeded, with a server that gives really poor error messages on configuration mistakes, and you have an amateur database.
That, and it ignores SELECT (...) LIMIT 1000 commands, at least if there are too many JOINs. We had one query (OK, not optimised) that took MySQL 25 minutes to complete. SQLServer did it in 6 seconds. Put the LIMIT 1000 (TOP 1000 in SQLServer), and SQLServer goes sub-second, MySQL takes... wait for it... 25 minutes.
Anything else needs mentioning? If you've got any skin in the game, steer well clear of MySQL. It's just not worth the pain.
The derivation into english is from Greek, not Latin.
Hope this helps.
Windows has many levels of user access. The administrators group is closest to the concept of 'root' in the world of unix, but it isn't identical. Local System is the real 'root' user, which you cannot log in as.
It's perfectly permissable to run Windows not as a root user. And like Linux, this causes problems, and will require you to escalate priveleges to do certain operations (think: mounting a network share which requires elevated access in linux, or binding to ports I'm not claiming that it's got perfect security or that local escalation exploits don't exist, they do (Shatter attacks in particular!), but they also exist on all platforms. Time to take blinkers off, SlashBots.
Who writes this tripe? This hasn't been true in Windows for years! It seems if your only experience of Windows is Windows 95, then of course it's all going to seem silly, but really, get with the program.
I mightn't be able to help you out, but I think that Britney Spears knows a thing or two.
Why not try a holiday in Sweden this year?
ELF and the other socialists should leave them alone, they would never do any thing like alter votes for goodness sake!
Electronic voting is coming, and I'd sure rather trust it to good, honest Christian Anericans who believe in absolutes like right and wrong than to a-moral atheists or some foreign company!
"I knew my god was bigger than his. I knew that my god was a real god and his was an idol." Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin
No, that's not irony, it's funny, and I'm not even convinced about that.
It was called the Saturnalia, a Roman festival. Christians made it the same time of year, so as to clash.
Poppycock. Christmas is only at the time of year that it is so as it would clash with the Saturnalia, a Roman festival. The idea was that you couldn't go to both, there by worshipping false gods.
I rang up the council, after I had sat for several cycles waiting for a right (think left) turn that never came. Eventually I ran the red light. The council told me that they were induction loops, and that I would need more metal in my vehicle to set it off. They suggested I attach some to the bottom of my scooter.
I never did that, just thought that if I drove at them quickly enough with what little metal I did have, I increased my chances of setting them off. Gives the brakes a good workout, too!
It does, with reduced functionality.
You know, there is also a reason why so many people use Exchange/Outlook. It's really quite good.
Of course, I have no idea if it will be honoured :-)
NTFS supports symlinks. You either need the win2k resource kit, or download a utility from www.sysinternals.com.
I'm somewhat disturbed that you've taken the time to measure these attributes of your performance.
You are right in that they do provide a workaround immediately. Cracks me up. Who says that Microsoft doesn't have a sense of humour? I think there are several people finding the whole thing very amusing.
Well, technically he's correct. The internet didn't break. Well, maybe that's because somewhere upstream of me someone's blocking the sitefinder service. So there was no breakage! Yay!
We have a similar thing with google.co.nz. If you do a search www.google.com/search?q=blah then it will not redirect you.
Crikey, there's a huuuuuge spelling mistake lying in the article text *just above me*. This one's a real beaut, too mate! It would be sick if you just fixed that up there...
</crocodile-hunter>
OK, I get it. Perhaps a case of RTFA? :-)
Eh? In what kind of democracy can the government overturn a judge's ruling? I thought it was up to the legislative branch to make the laws, and the judicial branch to implement them. Am I missing something here??? Why doesn't this bother anyone else?
Perhaps by could give a crap you meant couldn't give a crap? Sounds a little odd...
Bull pucky: From someone who with their only deployment of MySQL into a live environment went completely pear shaped, MySQL crashing several times per day. The damned thing doesn't report ANYTHING to the error log, except "I'm starting up again, and oohhh look at all that corrupt data, I hope I can do something about that!". I would never touch the database again, not with a 10 foot bargepole.
We're dropping that pile of crap faster than you can click the hyperlink on the MySQL website which says it may take up to two weeks to get any kind of support even in the case of an emergency.
We're now using MSDE for low powered embedded installations that the MySQL crowd had pushed prior to this. Who would have thought, use the Microsoft solution because the open source one doesn't cut it.
Sorry, it's been a long week of conference calls and VPNs in the middle of the night because MySQL decided to crash once again.
MySQL isn't there, and it's lost all trust from anyone who knows about databases.