On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Kucera, Rich wrote:
> Isn't container-managed transactions the point of EJBs anyway? So database
> transaction
> facilities are no longer mission critical? Or am I missing something...
Yes, No. Container-managed transactions are a big point of using EJB's.
But what transaction facility do you think the EJB server uses to
implement transaction safetyp? You guessed it, transactions in the RDBMS.
> MySQL also contains some pretty practical advice regarding the
> indiscriminate use of foriegn keys
> (it even says they're only useful for visual design tools so designers can
> more easily generate excess complexity
> or something to that effect)
Well, reading the web site gives me a lot of hype and poor explanations on
the lack of transactions. It reminds me a lot about Microsoft marketing
tactics and FUD. If it's something they don't implement, it has to suck.
Right?
They also have a number of banchmark comparison. But all you get is a the
speed of simple select and updates. Nothing more complex because mysql
performance takes big dive as soon as you bring locking into the picture.
/E.
