Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 00:12:29 -0800 From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@mooseriver.com> To: Berend de Boer <berend@pobox.com>, "'freebsd-database@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FW: Database for FreeBSD 2.2.X: DB2 or Interbase possible? Message-ID: <19981031001229.A22167@mooseriver.com> In-Reply-To: <01BE04AA.53FCA410.berend@pobox.com>; from Berend de Boer on Sat, Oct 31, 1998 at 08:42:00AM %2B0100 References: <01BE04AA.53FCA410.berend@pobox.com>
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On Sat, Oct 31, 1998 at 08:42:00AM +0100, Berend de Boer wrote: > On Saturday, October 31, 1998 2:08 AM, Robert A. Bruce [SMTP:rab@pike.cdrom.com] wrote: > > > We use MySQL for www.cdrom.com and www.freebsdmall.com, and > > are very happy with it. It is fast and reliable. There are > > some limitation, such as no rollback/commit, but that isn't > > a problem for us. It runs a litte better under FreeBSD 3.0 > > than with 2.2.7 because it can use native threads. > > No rollback/commit is a real problem. I'm to spoiled with good relational > databases to give that up :-) MySQL is a very good database but it does have it's problems. No rollback/commit is just one of them. It also does not support "select into", triggers and stored procedures. The authors are working on "select into" but they do not see the value of triggers and don't seem to be much interested in stored procedures. Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 3.0 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message
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