Hello mysql, As I have previously mentioned, I installed WAMPSERVER 2.0 on my Windows XP pro box recently. It installed INNODB as the Default Engine.
All of my legacy Databases are MYISAM and after the installation, I copied them all into the DATA folder and everything worked, even adding new tables etc. but the new stuff was INNODB. So I ended up with some MYISAM databases that contained INNODB tables in them. After a few weeks I got to thinking that mixing INNODB and MYISAM might not be a good thing and switched the Default Engine to MYISAM in my.ini file. I didn't just switch the default, I commented out all the INNODB calls in the my.ini file as well. As I half expected, all the databases that I had added INNODB tables failed when I tried to fire up the applications that used them. Although I am not new to mysql, I have had a bit of MYISAM "tunnel vision" with it so my question is, if I had just switched the default engine and NOT disabled the INNODB calls in my.ini, would that have prevented the "problem"? I restored all the MYISAM files and got everything back working again. I don't want to go through the "lengthy" reproduction exercise of reinstalling everything to test the theory so if someone has had some experience with this, I would appreciate hearing from them. -- Best regards, mikesz mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
