I am still in the early stages of developing my first SQL application,
and I have chosen MySQL because I only need very straightforward
facilities,
but I really want reliability, including particularly Replication. I am
currently doing all my development using Windows hosts because that is
what I have to hand.
However, when the product eventually ships, the database will be running
on twin x86 boxes bought for the purpose. The choice of OS for the client
is therefore open. Management here will want to use Win2K, simply because
other projects here use it (which is not a bad reason) and because of
Linux FUD (which is a bad reason). I have a feeling that Linux is likely
to be faster, and that writing scripts for backup,for master/slave failover
and restart etc. is likely to be easier under Linux. The former is not
desperately important - compared to some of the databases people discuss
round here, my database will be tiny (but we can always find a use for
more performance). The second, however, is significant; reliability (both
real and perceived) is important to me.
Does anybody have any comparative experience of handing failover of MySQL
under Win2K and Linux, which they could share? Or even any opinions?
Alec Cawley
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