-- "Weaver, Walt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 05/31/02 13:59:22 -0800

> If there's only one user accessing it, yes.
> 
> --Walt
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> a) It's blindingly fast as a single user database, faster then oracle.
> 
> Really?  Even with a 30 million record table?

Depends on what they are doing. MySQL doesn't claim to be 
ACID, just fast. If multiple users are reading a table 
that isn't configured for locks then it could be faster
than Oracle. The overhead and complexity introducted into
Oracle by rollback handling is a major slowdown for anythng
the database does.

This is mainly a matter of applying a tool in the way it was
designed to be used. MySQL is intended for primarily read-
access databases or smaller ones where the less granular
locking is not so much of a problem.

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