Re: LINUX is the "one" ? ....

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 well, we are talkign 2-5 years down the road here...heck, even in that
kinda time maybe even IBM might add some features...hopefully faster than
they've been added features to CL...:)

Don in DC



On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, William Washington III wrote:

> I agree that mySQL has nice features for web
> page development purposes, but the last time I
> checked, mySQL didn't have database triggers nor
> stored procedures.  I believe the next version
> (4.1) just added support for subqueries
> (subselects).
>
> Different databases are optimized for different
> purposes.  It's one thing to use a database to
> serve stateless web pages... it's another to
> guarantee that data is consistent and
> recoverable in an interactive environment.
>
> But mySQL is constantly improving... maybe it
> has jumped these hurdles already.
>
> William
>
>
> ---- Begin Original Message ----
> date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 13:13:36 -0700 (MST)
>  from: James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> subject: RE: LINUX is the "one" ? ....
> Comments???
>
> On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Booth Martin wrote:
>
> > I am not clear on something.  The iSeries
> IFS...  could we have MySQL on the
> > IFS and still have DB/400?
>
> Yes, assuming the C and C++ code that MYSQL is
> written in is portable
> enough to compile and run under OS/400.  MySQL
> creates standard stream
> files for it's tables and indexes.  These stream
> can exist anywhere.
>
> And btw, MySQL has some very nice features which
> would be great to have on
> the iSeries.  Like a great API.  And an
> AUTOINCREMENT feature which while
> non-standard, provides a great method to
> uniquely key records which just
> need an ascending number as the key.
>
> James Rich
>
>
>
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