RE: Perl vs. PHP with MySQL - performance?

2002-12-11 Thread Wesley Brown
Realize that somewhere between 60 and 80 percent of performance problems are poorly writen queries. I agree that if you are looking at PHP or Perl and wondering about speed you are worring about the wrong thing up front. If it's any consolation prize cmdrtaco from slashdot prefers Perl to PHP thoug

RE: The dreaded move from Oracle to MySQL

2002-11-21 Thread Wesley Brown
> i'm running an oracle enterprise server in a test > environment for corereader, and i've noticed > that, although oracle sometimes takes a while to > wake up, after you have its attention, it throws > data at you very fast. sometimes a developer > does not use connections properly. in your case

RE: The dreaded move from Oracle to MySQL

2002-11-20 Thread Wesley Brown
Well, it looks like Simon has the best possible answer so far. I did a test dump into a delimited file from Oracle and imported that using the LOAD command in mysql and sustaned about 11,000 inserts a second. This is with no indexes on the mysql tables at all. I have also tried using the dbtools im

The dreaded move from Oracle to MySQL

2002-11-20 Thread Wesley Brown
Well, This is my first attempt at moving from Oracle to MySQL on such a large scale and so far it isn't going well at all. We are running oracle 7.3.4.0.1 and MySQL 4.0.4-0 standard. We are moving 101 tables with a total of 45 millon records over. I have tried several diffrent methods including usi