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Postby Mithrandir » Tue Dec 23, 2003 9:12 am

It looks like open source technology in general got a real shot in the arm recently. This article make some interesting points about a recent study which found MySQL (an open source DB) superior in quality to comercial products.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1420487,00.asp
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Postby Heaven's Cloud » Tue Dec 23, 2003 11:56 am

Interesting...interesting indeed...
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Postby shooraijin » Tue Dec 23, 2003 5:57 pm

All of my servers run MySQL for their database systems, though I think I'll need to be upgrading the one on the primary database box (it runs an old 3.x era one and I need better ANSI features and transaction support).
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Postby inkhana » Tue Dec 23, 2003 6:19 pm

I don't know very much about MySQL (I just install MySQL dbs and they run, that's all I know...:P). But I think it's cool that it holds up so well to the competition...^^ When's the last time you heard about a product having so few known problems to fix? *thinks of Microsoft and winces*


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Postby LorentzForce » Tue Dec 23, 2003 7:06 pm

ah, the beauty of using a database. too bad i am forced to use a flatbed database, which sucks in both management and programming, so i should soon get another host that also has MySQL.

i love MySQL :)
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Postby Straylight » Wed Dec 24, 2003 10:15 am

MySQL is the only thing I've used, because since I've got into databases it's been the standard. As a result of this I can't really do any decent comparisons.

Any ideas about what problems these bugs caused? Does it have anything to do with database corruption?
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