Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 12:14:00 -0800 (PST) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: Robin Melville <robmel@innotts.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which SQL Database for Web Applications ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980129115953.4399A-100000@shell.uniserve.com> In-Reply-To: <l03130306b0f67e9dda14@[172.16.17.20]>
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On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Robin Melville wrote: > I've been trying another (non-free) SQL server that runs native on FreeBSD > called YARD. It seems a pretty complete & robust implementation (inc > logging & transactions). I've not tried linking it to web pages since I'm > working on unix & windoze apps, but it definitely has a JDBC interface as > well as ODBC and embedded C SQL. > > They're at http://www.yard.de/ & you can d/l a trial version to see if it's > any good for you. Interesting. Never heard of them before. They only have a FreeBSD 2.1.6 version, so I'm not sure how much Yard is still developed. > I'm a little disturbed about the problems with MySQL that Mark Mayo mentioned: Actually I posted the following... > >... I don't like the fact that MySQL 3.21 is the recommended version, > >but is still in beta and new betas come out monthly, and the last beta (as > >of today 3.21.21) has several known bugs invovling fairly simple queries, > >but the only way to get fixes is cut and paste patches from the mailing > >list... ugh > > ... since we've been thinking of using it for less "critical" stuff. Do > these problems lose data? Mainly they just produce incorrect query results. 3.21.22 is now out, and already someone found a fairly simple query that produces incorrect results. > Robin. Tom
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