On Wednesday, January 27, 2010 09:26 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
Ah, well #1 on his list then is to figure out what he is running!
LOL, I know it sounds quite noobish, coming across like I've no idea what DBMS it is running on. The system currently runs on MySQL but part of my update requirement was to decouple the DBMS so that we can make an eventual switch to postgresql.
Hence the solution cannot be dependent on some specific MySQL functionality.
mysql's isam tables have a reputation for surviving just about anything
...or people just didn't notice the loss of unflushed data since there weren't any relational constraints to break.
Maybe...there is also its convenience of being able to be copied to any os using the same cpu architecture. I certainly do not remember loss of rows after crashes but who knows...
Which version of mysql is GPL anyway?