[Plug-announce] June Newsletter

[Brian Cluff]

You dont HAVE to lock a table when you write you it in mysql.  You only have
to do that when you want to make sure that nothing else messes with the
table while you are trying to write to it.
I've been using mysql for 3 years now, and until about a month ago, I had
never found a reason that I needed to lock any tables.

> MySQL is good and fast, but it has a few performance issues under heavy
> use that I'm hoping PLUG would run into out of pure traffic volume.  :)
> (I'm referring to the need to lock down a whole table when performing a
> write to it.  If that has been fixed, I'm keen to be told about it.)