On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 10:52:22PM -0700, Steven Roussey wrote:
> 
> Other people can tell you more about replication and how it is
> different from clustering or load balancing. And you can use it for
> backup in a way too. It depends on your requirements though.

Yeah.  And you can use replication to enable load-balancing.  They
work quite well together.

> If things are partitionable, then some thinking about that upfront
> will do you a world of good later. Depend on your application
> though.

Indeed.  Partitioning before you NEED to can save a ton of hassle.

> > 7) I'd also appreciate any input from people who have used 
> > official mysql support before.
> 
> We have used their support and it was excellent.

Heck, their free support is great.  The paid stuff just gurantees it.

Jeremy
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