From owner-freebsd-java Fri Dec 7 4:54:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from l04.research.kpn.com (l04.research.kpn.com [139.63.192.204]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EE9137B41D for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 04:54:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by l04.research.kpn.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 13:54:16 +0100 Message-ID: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FDA1AD@l04.research.kpn.com> From: "Koster, K.J." To: 'Melik Bessaha' Cc: freebsd-java Subject: RE: DBMS and BSD Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 13:54:15 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dear Mel, > > I was wondering as to which DBMSes most of you were running on our > kick-ass O/S. :) I have found it an unbelievable pain in the arse to > run Oracle 8i, what with the severe lack of support. And so I would > like some input concerning your trials and tribulations and successes > regarding the DBMS you use in conjunction with the jdbc > drivers and jdks available to us currently. > I use MySQL for Orion with the mm mysql jdbc drivers. mm jdbc 1.2c works, but is a bit buggy for some data types. Version 2.0.7 is better (Dave is working on the port). All of this is with linux JDK 1.2.x and 1.3.x. I'm happy with the performance and ease of use of MySQL. Never had any reason to try another DB yet, so perhaps they are way better and I'd never know. :-) Kees Jan ===================================================== You can't have everything. Where would you put it? [Steven Wright] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message