I was lucky enough to have gotten a copy of MySQL 10 (aka MySQL X)
from the source tree before it was pulled.
The query optimizer used predictive algorithms with temporal
displacement logic, which meant that it could and did frequently
return results in negative time, before the query was even asked.
The full-text search used natural-language processing so effectively
that you could search for "breakfast" and it would know whether to
return "bacon and eggs" or "a cheese danish" depending on what you
felt like that morning. By version 10.13, you could just search a
full-text index for "something" or "whatever" and it would return
exactly the rows you needed.
The whole thing ran in under 2K of RAM. I had a copy running on the
office coffee machine for a while until people started getting
caffeine headaches just from reading reports.
The BLOB type could store not only binary data but actual THINGS,
like books or clothing or building materials. There was a weight
limit, but you could get around that by setting something in the
config file. Also, there was a bug in the refrigeration stored
procedure, so you had to be very careful with perishables, like, say,
fish.
On Aug 25, 2006, at 12:50 AM, mos wrote:
At 06:30 PM 8/24/2006, David Hillman wrote:
On Aug 24, 2006, at 6:13 PM, Daniel Kasak wrote:
That's just how software develops. People start with the later-
versioned
product, with full features and zero bugs, and progressively remove
features and add bugs, while decreasing the version number.
I've looked all over the web, and found nothing, so hopefully
someone here can help... where can I download MySQL 10 from?
;)
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David,
MySQL 10 came out quite a while ago and is now obsolete.
MySQL 10 of course had been totally free and since it worked so
well, it nearly killed off all the competition. Legislation was
quickly passed in order to make things fair for other database
manufacturers by forcing the programmers to make radical changes to
the MySQL 10 engine. The engine had far too many features and
worked too well so the programmers have been stripping out features
and adding bugs for the past 5 years. They also had to slow it down
because people were getting results in 0ms which led people to
think the results were inaccurate even though they weren't. Delay
loops had to be added along with random disk access to give people
the impression a lot of work was being processed by the MySQL
engine. They also discovered getting perfect answers each time had
created its own problems. Accounting systems written in MySQL 10
produced highly accurate Income Statements and Balance Sheets
correctly the first time they were run, causing much embarrassment
at stock holders meetings for revealing improprieties by the board.
Bugs had to be added to the MySQL engine and the SQL syntax had to
be obfuscated in order to introduce calculation mistakes so the
CEO's could have "someone" to blame and thereby avoid criminal
prosecution. Since MySQL 10 was totally free for both personal and
commercial use without any restrictions whatsoever, royalties were
quickly introduced to try and limit the number of people using the
product. All of this of course took years to accomplish. What we're
left with is what we have now. <g,d&r>
Mike
(Just kidding Monty - Please don't key my car!)
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