RE: What is a good benchmark?

On my 2 * 2.8Ghz 2GB RAM, Redhat 8: mysql SELECT BENCHMARK(100,ENCODE(hello,goodbye)); +--+ | BENCHMARK(100,ENCODE(hello,goodbye)) | +--+ |0 |

RE: What's up with this GATOR crap? unrelated to MySQL

My money is on that the person who is getting this gator crap has a a peice of spyware installed on their machine (gator and/or savenow.exe). This is an app that launches addware based on your surfing habits. I believe they are the same people who were serving up the infamous X10 Camera adds. My

Encryption of user / pass in odbc.ini / alternatives

All; Does anyone know of a more secure way than storing the username and password to the database connection within the odbc.ini ? We are using PHP on one server connecting to a MySQL 4.0 database ? Thanks

Release timeframes -- need Internat. support

I am new to MySQL and was wondering if someone could share some past experience on timeframes from alpha to full release ? We need full Internationalization support and since 4.1 has it in it would like to get some guesses on when it will be production release. Thanks

Archiving tables ranges

Passing mysql commands through mysqldump or BACKUP TABLE ? We would like to perform backups on selective data within selective tables and then purge the matching data in those tables. Is it possible to pass mysql commands through either util above ? Which is better ? Example: sql statement...