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.
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> 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.
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