On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 02:37:07AM -0500, Michael She wrote: > > I agree. MySQL is a great database, but I wouldn't call it > enterprise grade.
Since you haven't told us what "enterprise grade" means to you, that doesn't tell us much. What is it lacking to become "enterprise grade" in your mind? > Considering that the database is used to store billing > information... one has to be weary about losing all the records due > to a bug or deficiency in MySQL. That's true of any database server, right? It's not really a MySQL-specific complaint. > I was searching through some of the MySQL help documentation, and > there have been more than a few examples in the comments where > people have lost data due to wacky functions on databases greater > than a couple of GBs... Imagine what you'd read it Oracle was open enough to allow comments in their on-line docs. Seriously. I've heard pretty nasty stories about Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, and so on. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny | Perl, Web, MySQL, Linux Magazine, Yahoo! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jeremy.zawodny.com/ MySQL 3.23.51: up 3 days, processed 136,618,914 queries (457/sec. avg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
