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Edwin Johnson wrote:
>
> I'm using Mysql and believe, as advertised, it is probably one of the
> fastest. Since I'm just now getting into this, I'm not sure it will support
> all of the features you desire. It _does_, however, have a great Perl
> interface, with which I've written routines to access several databases I
> have and it also has the PHP3 with Apache. I've written front ends similar
> to the Perl, but using html format allowing users to access the database
> using simple TCP/IP connections and a web browser. As I said it _is_
> extremely fast.
MySQL is fast, but it doesn't have transactional integrity (as far as I
know).
This is a serious drawback for any serious database work...
Michael
-- Michael Peppler -||- Data Migrations Inc. mpeppler@mbay.net -||- http://www.mbay.net/~mpeppler Int. Sybase User Group -||- http://www.isug.comReceived on Fri Oct 16 1998 - 00:00:00 CDT