From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 10 18:54:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c0039.upc-c.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 741D837B422 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 18:54:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Received: from eboa.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id DAA68191; Fri, 11 May 2001 03:53:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Message-ID: <3AFB4627.E9B7295@eboa.com> Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 03:53:43 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eBOA - Programming the Web X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ken Menzel Cc: Andrew Sherrod , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Jeff Eckermann , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Oracle, References: <20010510031456.82964.qmail@web10001.mail.yahoo.com> <005301c0d968$0eda7d40$711663cf@icarz.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ken Menzel wrote: > > Re: row locking, transactions and "toy", please see this page. > http://netgraft.com/~mbac/research/mysqlmyths.html I did. It only asks those questions it can answer favorably. Fact: MySQL does support transactions, just not by default because it's believed to be too significant a speed hit for most people to need. If you are willing to accept the speed hit for transactions you can use the BDB table type. As DAG said, it's not an option. As I said, MySQL is a nice DBMS for its niche. Roelof -- _______________________________________________________________________ eBOAź est. 1982 http://eBOA.com/ tel. +31-58-2123014 mailto:info@eBOA.com?subject=Information_request fax. +31-58-2160293 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message