From owner-freebsd-database Thu Jan 29 12:14:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA10159 for database-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 12:14:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA10154 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 12:14:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.com [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.73 #1) id 0xy0La-0007Ym-00; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 12:14:02 -0800 Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 12:14:00 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: Robin Melville cc: freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which SQL Database for Web Applications ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe database" On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Robin Melville wrote: > I've been trying another (non-free) SQL server that runs native on FreeBSD > called YARD. It seems a pretty complete & robust implementation (inc > logging & transactions). I've not tried linking it to web pages since I'm > working on unix & windoze apps, but it definitely has a JDBC interface as > well as ODBC and embedded C SQL. > > They're at http://www.yard.de/ & you can d/l a trial version to see if it's > any good for you. Interesting. Never heard of them before. They only have a FreeBSD 2.1.6 version, so I'm not sure how much Yard is still developed. > I'm a little disturbed about the problems with MySQL that Mark Mayo mentioned: Actually I posted the following... > >... I don't like the fact that MySQL 3.21 is the recommended version, > >but is still in beta and new betas come out monthly, and the last beta (as > >of today 3.21.21) has several known bugs invovling fairly simple queries, > >but the only way to get fixes is cut and paste patches from the mailing > >list... ugh > > ... since we've been thinking of using it for less "critical" stuff. Do > these problems lose data? Mainly they just produce incorrect query results. 3.21.22 is now out, and already someone found a fairly simple query that produces incorrect results. > Robin. Tom