Database holy war

[Carl Parrish]

Brian Cluff wrote:

>> MySQL is definitely the way to go for small personal use databases, but
> 
> since it
> 
>> does have a 2GB limit per table can make larger databases impossible, but
> 
> using
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>> it can give you a basis on standard SQL syntax for moving on to the bigger
> 
> guys
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>> that you probably couldn't afford as a personal/small business user.
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> 
> That wasn't a MySQL limit, it was a filesystem limit, and if you run a 2.4
> kernel, that is no longer a problem.  Also MySQL has a raid table option
> that will allow you to break your table files up so they aren't as big, and
> you can spread them across sevral devices if you want.
> 
> For all the postgres people:
> MySQL also does transactions, replication, row level locking.. etc etc   you
> know all the things that people said "dont use MySQL... it doesn't do bla
> bla"
> The only thing that it doesn't do for me now that I would really like is
> subqueries, but if you check the todo list, that is the top priority right
> now... so very soon :)
> 
> Brian Cluff
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Still no stored procedures but I have to say I'm liking the new version 
a *lot*

Carl Parrish