RE: Oracle DBA here looking for advice on MySQL ....

2003-08-21 Thread Paul DuBois
for its tables like Oracle does. The InnoDB storage engine does. --Michael -Original Message- From: Martin Gainty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 2:20 PM To: 'MySQL Users' Subject: Re: Oracle DBA here looking for advice on MySQL As a Oracle followup

Re: Oracle DBA here looking for advice on MySQL ....

2003-08-21 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 20), Michael S. Fischer said: In a word, no. The way MySQL organizes its datafiles is trivial by comparison: one directory per database, two files per table (table.MYI and table.MYD), one is the datafile, the other is the index file. MySQL also does not preallocate

Re: Oracle DBA here looking for advice on MySQL ....

2003-08-21 Thread David Griffiths
Users' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 5:24 PM Subject: RE: Oracle DBA here looking for advice on MySQL In a word, no. The way MySQL organizes its datafiles is trivial by comparison: one directory per database, two files per table (table.MYI and table.MYD), one

Re: Oracle DBA here looking for advice on MySQL ....

2003-08-21 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:41:54PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 20), Michael S. Fischer said: In a word, no. The way MySQL organizes its datafiles is trivial by comparison: one directory per database, two files per table (table.MYI and table.MYD), one is the datafile,

RE: Oracle DBA here looking for advice on MySQL ....

2003-08-20 Thread Adam Nelson
I'd say MySQL 2nd edition by Paul Dubois. It has the first 200 pages with stuff you already know, but the next 800 pages are mysql specific. Very good reference book and best practices guide. The only thing it's missing is what I think should be in every book (and is in virtually none). 5 pages

Re: Oracle DBA here looking for advice on MySQL ....

2003-08-20 Thread Martin Gainty
]; 'MySQL Users' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 7:49 AM Subject: RE: Oracle DBA here looking for advice on MySQL I'd say MySQL 2nd edition by Paul Dubois. It has the first 200 pages with stuff you already know, but the next 800 pages are mysql specific. Very good

RE: Oracle DBA here looking for advice on MySQL ....

2003-08-20 Thread Michael S. Fischer
-Original Message- From: Martin Gainty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 2:20 PM To: 'MySQL Users' Subject: Re: Oracle DBA here looking for advice on MySQL As a Oracle followup question Oracle supports Tablespaces That is 2 or more logically separate

Re: Oracle DBA here looking for advice on MySQL ....

2003-08-19 Thread Andy Jackman
I've used a lot of Oracle, some MS Access and I'm newish to MySQL. I found it easy to write an abstraction layer for Ms Access and Oracle despite their different approaches to some important things. I find MySQL very sparse by comparison and I spend more time working round the db than working with

RE: Oracle DBA here looking for advice on MySQL ....

2003-08-19 Thread Johnson, Michael
see any of that in the MySQL docs I read. I appears that MySQL has some potential though. Mike -Original Message- From: Andy Jackman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 12:29 AM To: Johnson, Michael Cc: MySQL Users Subject: Re: Oracle DBA here looking for advice

RE: Oracle DBA here looking for advice on MySQL ....

2003-08-19 Thread Wendell Dingus
: Oracle DBA here looking for advice on MySQL I went thru the documentation this weekend on it and found that there is really not to much to this database. One thing we learn as Oracle DBA's is how the whole database starts up and how all those processes work together and where to find bottlenecks

RE: Oracle DBA here looking for advice on MySQL ....

2003-08-19 Thread Michael S. Fischer
Users Subject: RE: Oracle DBA here looking for advice on MySQL I went thru the documentation this weekend on it and found that there is really not to much to this database. One thing we learn as Oracle DBA's is how the whole database starts up and how all those processes work together

RE: Oracle DBA here looking for advice on MySQL ....

2003-08-19 Thread Brian Austin
, not an app user. /opinion per 1st reply Brian -Original Message- From: Andy Jackman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 2:29 AM To: Johnson, Michael Cc: MySQL Users Subject: Re: Oracle DBA here looking for advice on MySQL I've used a lot of Oracle, some MS Access

Re: Oracle DBA here looking for advice on MySQL ....

2003-08-18 Thread Rajesh Kumar
Johnson, Michael unknowingly asked us: What is the best book on MySQL with regard to its Architecture and how it starts up, shutdowns, processes queries, rolls back data, etc etc. ? Doesn't the documentation help? -- Think to think more, work to work more.