Dan, I don't believe I will be placing stressful demands on the database/PC. I will be querying about a dozen tables varying in size from 100 records up to around 500,000 records each. Do you agree? What are you doing by comparison?
Are you using the Zeos components to access mySQL from Delphi? If not, what -are- you using? And what do you use to do your installations? Frank ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Cumpian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Frank Marousek'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 11:03 PM Subject: RE: Suitability of mySQL for desktop use? > Frank, > > I am using MySQL for a PC desktop application. It runs fine, but you > have to be careful how you structure your database because (depending on > how much data you will be storing and processing) be putting a lot of > stress on the PC the application and MySQL are running on. > > I am using Delphi 6, and MySQL 4.0.5 running as a service on WinXP and > Win2000. The W2K is a generic (cheap) Dell with IDE disks. It bogs down > occasionally, but recovers fairly quickly. The other system I am running > it on is a 2.2Ghz machine with dual 15,000 RPM SCSI disks and 1GB RAM. > On that machine, I can't even tell that MySQL is running. > > HTH, > Dan Cumpian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
