upgrading mysql

2001-03-27 Thread Ryan Worley
What process do you guys usually follow when upgrading your version of MySQL? I have yet to perform an upgrade, but my first thought would be to dump the databases, uninstall the old version (remove all the files), install the new version, and import the dump file. Is this a good plan, or is the

Re: v4.0 feature list

2001-03-26 Thread Ryan Worley
>From this feature list, it sounds like you are creating methods (multi-deletes, updates from joins) that will take the place of transactions. Is this the direction that MySQL is heading? Do you believe that these methods will be preferred over traditional rollback/commit transactions with BDB o

Transactions

2001-03-13 Thread Ryan Worley
How exactly does the BEGIN/COMMIT/ROLLBACK transaction process work? The examples I have seen are like: BEGIN; statement 1; statement 2; statement n; COMMIT; Does this imply that if any of the statements fail then a ROLLBACK will be called, otherwise it will COMMIT? --