You should find the following informative: http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Table_types.html
InnoDB offers transaction support, and seems to recover better from crashes. You do sacrifice some speed and features such as FULLTEXT index support. Regards, Mike Hillyer www.vbmysql.com > -----Original Message----- > From: PAUL MENARD [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 2:51 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Confused about MyISAM vs InnoDB tabel types > > > Can anyone either summarize for me a comparison between the > MyISAM and InnoDB MySQL table type? > > I am getting ready to upgrade from MySQL 3.23.42 to 4.0.13 in > the coming week and started reading the upgrade documents on > the www.mysql.com site. Never had even thought about using > another table type since my current database seems to work > fine. But thought I would ask. > > > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]