[snip] The justification for the latter is that MySQL is not powerful enough (compare to Oracle or DB2) to handle large amount of data and concurrent users. [/snip]
Not true and it has been proven time and again by the likes of Yahoo and others that size. We routinely use MySQL for large data stores (upwards of half a billion records in a single table) and with proper management we have performance equal to or better than the above mentioned products without the overhead required by either of those. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]