On Sat, 07 Oct 2006 21:02:30 +0200, Martijn Lievaart <m@remove.this.part.rtij.nl> wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:17:27 +0000, Ignoramus7272 wrote:
>
>> Someone here tested MS SQL Server vs. MySQL. Both stock install versions,
>> no tweaking.
>>
>> The result of tests, roughly, is that MySQL is about 2-3x faster than MS
>> SQL Server, when doing selects or inserts or updates.
>>
>> So, we'll be going with MySQL. It is also to not pay money to anyone, and
>> to get a full version and not some bastardized "evaluation" server.
>
> Version 4 or 5 of MySQL? You are sure you don't need transactions?

5.

> I've seen way to many programmers not thinking about database concurrency
> resulting in corrupted databases. If MySQL cuts it (it does for most of my
> applications), fine. However, if you need a true database, the tables turn
> (pun intended).

Well, though we do not do any concurrent statements due to our system
design, I thought tat MySQL 5 covers concurrency just fine, no?

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