Re: Need examples of companies using mysql

2001-04-02 Thread Anthony R. J. Ball
HAHA! You'll be a good example, since I'm pretty sure you buy data from us... hehe. FT Interactive Data We use MySQL quite a lot and even manage to generate money once in a while... Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technical Yahoo - Yahoo Finance Desk: (408)

Re: Need examples of companies using mysql

2001-04-02 Thread Anthony R. J. Ball
Unless you're going to have a LOT of users accessing a HUGE database, the system you've outlined below will be overkill (do you have any current usage statistics ? Are you using the system (is it an E450 ?) for any other applications/processes ?). It would be, if it was dedicated to

Mirroring/Failover for MySQL (Was Need examples of companies using mysql)

2001-04-02 Thread Jason Saunders
Hi Steve, To achieve mirroring, MySQL can be run in a master/slave replication ring with two servers (look up replication in the manual). That way you can split reads and writes over both servers and get better read performance, and also more resilience. The way to achieve transparent

Re: Need examples of companies using mysql

2001-03-31 Thread Jim Gillaspy @ bellsouth.net
Jason Maderios" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'Mike Roberts'" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "Anthony R. J. Ball" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 4:35 PM Subject: RE: Need examples of companies using mysql If he is talking about the Samples that come wit

RE: Need examples of companies using mysql

2001-03-31 Thread Hemendra Rana
]] Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 1:13 PM Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Need examples of companies using mysql I use MySQL for my personal web site, but as the Director of Information Systems (I suppose I am one of those higher ups) I can't imagine using MySQL for mission critical applications

Need examples of companies using mysql

2001-03-30 Thread Anthony R. J. Ball
Now that our use of MySQL is being questioned (but they are pretty much convinced). What the higher-ups want to know is a few examples of medium to large companies using mysql for mission critical stuff. If any one can provide some I would be much appreciated. We are a financial company

Re: Need examples of companies using mysql

2001-03-30 Thread Jed Verity
I read that SGI (sgi.com) uses all kinds of MySQL DBMS's behind the scenes. Presumably, they're running on Irix. ;-) HTH, Jed On 3/30/01 11:48 AM, you wanted me to know this: Now that our use of MySQL is being questioned (but they are pretty much convinced). What the higher-ups want to

Re: Need examples of companies using mysql

2001-03-30 Thread Scott Baker
www.livejournal.com www.slashdot.org www.everything2.com At 02:48 PM 3/30/2001 -0500, Anthony R. J. Ball wrote: Now that our use of MySQL is being questioned (but they are pretty much convinced). What the higher-ups want to know is a few examples of medium to large companies using mysql for

Re: Need examples of companies using mysql

2001-03-30 Thread Anthony R. J. Ball
Hehe, yeah, I mentioned slashdot... for some reason, they just weren't impressed :) You know the type... unless they are a big money company, then they can't be doing anything mission critical :) www.livejournal.com www.slashdot.org www.everything2.com -- ___ __ ____ _ _

Re: Need examples of companies using mysql

2001-03-30 Thread Jeremy D . Zawodny
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 02:56:53PM -0500, Anthony R. J. Ball wrote: Hehe, yeah, I mentioned slashdot... for some reason, they just weren't impressed :) You know the type... unless they are a big money company, then they can't be doing anything mission critical :) We use MySQL

Re: Need examples of companies using mysql

2001-03-30 Thread Jason Terry
I know that www.yahoo.com uses it somewhere... but I can't remember where I read that (probably on this list a while ago) - Original Message - From: "Anthony R. J. Ball" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 12:48 PM Subject: Need examples of

Re: Need examples of companies using mysql

2001-03-30 Thread Peter M. Perchansky
Greetings: We Manage Servers (http://www.wemanageservers.com/) - Their ASP-based advanced monitoring service utilizes the power of mySQL. While I don't have the institutions name, I was told by Verio Advanced they have a financial institution running mySQL. XOXO Clothes

Re: Need examples of companies using mysql

2001-03-30 Thread Ernesto Vargas
ony R. J. Ball" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 2:48 PM Subject: Need examples of companies using mysql Now that our use of MySQL is being questioned (but they are pretty much convinced). What the higher-ups want to know is a few examples of mediu

Re: Need examples of companies using mysql

2001-03-30 Thread Ernesto Vargas
Some MySQL Users http://www.mysql.com/documentation/mysql/bychapter/manual_Users.html#Users Regards, Ernesto Vargas - Original Message - From: "Anthony R. J. Ball" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 2:48 PM Subject: Need examples of compa

Re: Need examples of companies using mysql

2001-03-30 Thread Mike Roberts
I asked for the same things awhile back. But you got more responses then I did! I got the yahoo address from Jeremy D . Zawodny http://biz.yahoo.com/ne.html Thanks Jeremy, its a good site At 02:48 PM 3/30/2001 -0500, you wrote: Now that our use of MySQL is being questioned (but they are

Re: Need examples of companies using mysql

2001-03-30 Thread Steve Brazill
My company is using it for all database functions. We're an online 'collection' agency and have been using it for the past 6 months (versions 3.22.23 upgraded to 3.23.36). In comparison with Borland's "Interbase" ("Ibase"), which I supported at the late "Money Store" corporation for all 100 of

RE: Need examples of companies using mysql

2001-03-30 Thread Jason Maderios
. Ball Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Need examples of companies using mysql I asked for the same things awhile back. But you got more responses then I did! I got the yahoo address from Jeremy D . Zawodny http://biz.yahoo.com/ne.html Thanks Jeremy, its a good site At 02:48 PM 3/30/2001 -0500

Re: Need examples of companies using mysql

2001-03-30 Thread Steve Allsopp
Not sure how much use to you it would be, but my employers, Dexterus Ltd, trust my judgement enough to have adopted my recommendation to use MySQL as an "embedded" DBMS in our smallscale PC-based systems. It has been deployed in a "farm" of PC's running Linux to co-ordinate virus scanning of

Re: Need examples of companies using mysql

2001-03-30 Thread Peter M. Perchansky
Greetings Steve: At 12:01 AM 3/31/2001 +0100, Steve Allsopp wrote: "Dexterus (www.dexterus.com) is a VC-funded company set up to provide application services to the banking industry in the City of London. While we are still in the pre-launch stages (we launch Tuesday!), we are aiming for a

Re: Need examples of companies using mysql

2001-03-30 Thread Michael Bacarella
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