Re: Migration from Oracle to MySQL

2007-07-30 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Martijn Tonies wrote: LOL - an entertaining read! Entertaining? I feel to see the humor in his post. I thought it was concise and well written, with an undertone of I know I'm swearing in church but So yes, I found it entertaining (I agree that it was not necessarily humorous

Re: Migration from Oracle to MySQL

2007-07-29 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Grant Allen wrote: Storage engines are unique to MySQL? yes. Is that good? YMMV. Most of the purported benefits can be achieved with Oracle's features without the compromises of balkanised storage engines. You're right, they're not offered by Oracle, or anyone else ... there's a reason

Re : Create Index Speed

2001-09-03 Thread Mark kirkwood
Thanks to everyone who replied - much appreciated. Ok here is how it went : 1 Creating index first and loading table :saved 1 minute overall 2 Increasing key_buffer - 100M :no difference 3 increasing myisam_max_sort_file_size- 1000M and myisam_sort_buffer_size-100M

Index Create Speed

2001-08-30 Thread Mark kirkwood
Dear List, I have a (standard table handler ) table defined as follows : CREATE TABLE fact0 ( d0keyINTEGER, d1keyINTEGER, d2keyINTEGER, val INTEGER, filler

Ideas Requested To Improve Mysql Results In Db Comparison

2001-08-26 Thread Mark kirkwood
Dear List, I did a data warehouse comparison of a number of databases a while back - for full details of data structures and queries see : http://homepages.slingshot.co.nz/~markir Altho I spent more time on Mysql than any of the others, I was not able to optimize some aspects as much as I