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?