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From: <G.Plivna_at_itsystems.lv>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 07:43:37 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00447FFB.20020418074337@fatcity.com>

Thanks for clarification, all my knowledge about transactional tables are from MySQL docs.
I'v used only "not transactional safe" tables for some web projects.

Gints Plivna
IT Sistēmas, Merķeļa 13, LV1050 Rīga
http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/

                                                                                                                                        
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In our testing the Berkeley table types were hopelessly slow and bloated, taking up much more space than MyISAM or InnoDB table types.

We had more success with the InnoDB table type, and will be implementing them some time in the future. InnoDB supports referential integrity.

The table types aren't really a special component; they're implemented via an argument when the source is compiled.

--Walt Weaver
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By default MySQL has no transactions
You have to add special component to access "transactional safe tables" called Berkeley db tables. You can commit and rollback on only these tables. For others every wrong (not syntactically, but for example inserting characters into number column) insert and update will succeed. If MySQL cannot insert provided values it uses default values.

One of the biggest pains is (maybe was, I don't know about MySQL 4.xxx) that it has no foreign keys :((((((((((((

I have created class diagramms for both Oracle and Mysql servers for my studies in University. It cannot be treated as feature comparison but just simple overview of these two images will show the situation i.e. compare object count on these images :-)
And I have to say that Oracle diagramm isn't complete!

Oracle server class diagramm
http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/files/oracle/oracle_s.htm

Mysql server class diagramm
http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/files/mysql/mysql.htm

Gints Plivna
IT Sistēmas, Merķeļa 13, LV1050 Rīga
http://www.itsystems.lv/gints/

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I have not been so much with MySQL , But want to share my experience.

Firstly , it is very fast ...This makes me suspicious , I wonder if it is trusted to be integral .
Seem like no control ..Does not contain rollbacks , may be this .. Then how does it rollback ?

I have used a version where stored procs ,functions are unavailable .. Wonder if it has now..

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> > I don't think you're wrong. MySQL gets dissed frequently on this list,
but
> > it's really a nice little product. IMHO it's much closer to Oracle than
> > Access.
> >
> > It works well for us. Doesn't scale like Oracle, but works well.
>
> In some ways it scales better than Oracle. For load+query
> (a.k.a., "warehouse") operations it can be faster than
> Oracle because it doesn't get tangled up with rollbacks,
> etc. On systms with many "instances" it also can be much
> simpler to administer.
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