> > Hi, > > Wednesday, September 10, 2003, 2:30:15 PM, you wrote: > > > Anyone any experience with MySQL? > > http://www.pgro.uk7.net/qu071401.htm > and > http://www.pgro.uk7.net/brand1.htm > > should tell you all you need to know about MySQL.
Yep. It isn't a suitable tool for database wonks. It's good at providing simple database services (and only simple database services) using standard SQL syntax, and nothing more. On the other hand it is a perfectly reasonable tool for a web-based application with several thousand registered users. It's what I use to support the motorsport.com Formula One Pick Six competition. The largest table there has somewhere around one million records. But last time I looked it wasn't a suitable tool to replace Access; while the license on Unix & Linux is free, that wasn't true for a license to run on Windows. So if you can use Access (which only runs on the Windows platform) you'll have to pay if you want to use MySQL.
