From: alex@_NOSPAM_Eaglechair.com (Aleksei Kac) Subject: Re: Advice needed on large database project Date: 1997/05/05 Message-ID: #1/1 References: <5jo09j$20o$1@news.enterprise.net> <33606e0c.3792623@news.sc.edu> <3360C0C4.31A9264B@id.dk> <5k27n4$3s4$1@gaia.ns.utk.edu> Organization: Web Information Solutions Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.misc,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.lang.c,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.programmer,comp.databases,comp.databases.ms-sqlserver,comp.databases.oracle.server,comp.databases.oracle.misc In article <5k27n4$3s4$1@gaia.ns.utk.edu>, fty@hickory.engr.utk.edu (Jay Flaherty) wrote: : Thomas Lund (lund@id.dk) wrote: : : Vipul S. wrote: : : > = : : > check out msql. you will find the link from yahoo . : : : : Or even better (IMHO) MySQL on www.tcx.se : : : : It's faster than msql : : Not only is it faster than mSQL but more robust and basically free. : check out these features: : Main features of MySQL : ====================== : : * ODBC Open-DataBase-Connectivity for Windows95 (with source). : : : * Can handle big databases (we are using MySQL with some databases : with 50,000,000 records). : : : : Also, there is a very active user community via the MySQL listserv. : : Jay (just a very happy customer of MySQL) : Ah, but no Mac ODBC driver? Bummer. And how would it handle about 20,000 requests from it per day coming from a couple hundred users? -- Web Information Solutions Just take the _spam_ out of my email to reply...