Re: [nyphp-talk] databases with PHP

2009-05-08 Thread Anthony Wlodarski
Yeah at my current company we are thinking of a master-slave implementation and we can speed up the website by making read only requests head to the slave server. When working with MySQL is there a stop gap to prevent requesting data from the slave that is currently in transit from the master serv

Re: [nyphp-talk] databases with PHP

2009-05-08 Thread Jerry B. Altzman
on 5/8/2009 10:17 AM Anthony Wlodarski said the following: It can be a PITA sometimes. The typical usage is the master-slave replication. Even with this type of replication there can be some data loss too. MySQL replication is great when it works. With 5.1 they've introduced row-level replic

Re: [nyphp-talk] databases with PHP

2009-05-08 Thread Anthony Wlodarski
It can be a PITA sometimes. The typical usage is the master-slave replication. Even with this type of replication there can be some data loss too. -Anthony On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:10 PM, David Mintz wrote: > > One nice thing about MySQL, however, is that replication is pretty easy. I > have

Re: [nyphp-talk] databases with PHP

2009-05-07 Thread David Mintz
One nice thing about MySQL, however, is that replication is pretty easy. I have no experience with PostgreSQL but after doing a little research it looks like replication in PostgreSQL is a comparative PITA. -- David Mintz http://davidmintz.org/ The subtle source is clear and bright The tributary

Re: [nyphp-talk] databases with PHP

2009-05-07 Thread Anthony Wlodarski
Looks like I am upgrading my DB on my Ubuntu machine later tonight. Cheers Dan for pointing that out! -Anthony On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Daniel Horning wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: talk-boun...@lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk- > > boun...@lists.nyphp.org] On Behalf Of Dan

Re: [nyphp-talk] databases with PHP

2009-05-07 Thread Daniel Horning
> -Original Message- > From: talk-boun...@lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk- > boun...@lists.nyphp.org] On Behalf Of Dan Cech > > Anthony Wlodarski wrote: > > Here is an example of a convenience that is not yet built into > PostgreSQL > > (and if it is please correct me as I am using 8.1.1). >

Re: [nyphp-talk] databases with PHP

2009-05-07 Thread Dan Cech
Anthony Wlodarski wrote: > Here is an example of a convenience that is not yet built into PostgreSQL > (and if it is please correct me as I am using 8.1.1). > > INSERT INTO x (a,b) > VALUES > ('1', 'one'), > ('2', 'two'), > ('3', 'three') It seems like this was added in 8.2, it's been a while

Re: [nyphp-talk] databases with PHP

2009-05-06 Thread Anthony Wlodarski
Same here, I am still a "noob" to the SQL game but I prefer PostgreSQL over MySQL. The one thing I do find rewarding is that at the end of the day I can watch PostgreSQL run circles around MySQL in regards to performance. But those nice to haves are missed that make MySQL user friendly for the maj

Re: [nyphp-talk] databases with PHP

2009-05-06 Thread Kenneth Downs
Anthony Wlodarski wrote: We use PostgreSQL for our environments. Although it is quite powerful there are some ease of use issues with tuning and getting it to perform at its maximum. But the great thing about PostgreSQL is transactions right out of the box, that has been the most useful feature

Re: [nyphp-talk] databases with PHP

2009-05-06 Thread Anthony Wlodarski
We use PostgreSQL for our environments. Although it is quite powerful there are some ease of use issues with tuning and getting it to perform at its maximum. But the great thing about PostgreSQL is transactions right out of the box, that has been the most useful feature so far. I haven't had a c

Re: [nyphp-talk] databases with PHP

2009-05-06 Thread David Krings
Jesse Callaway wrote: I think the idea is that MySQL had a decent business model and was doing quite well. If Oracle does decide to shitcan it, it's GPL'd anyway and will live on kinda like CentOS does. Besides that MySQL forked already and while I do like and use MySQL, there is still Postgr

Re: [nyphp-talk] databases with PHP

2009-05-06 Thread Jesse Callaway
Ahem, I meant Sun. And I meant to not top-post, but here we go On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Jesse Callaway wrote: > I think the idea is that MySQL had a decent business model and was > doing quite well. If Oracle does decide to shitcan it, it's GPL'd > anyway and will live on kinda like Ce

Re: [nyphp-talk] databases with PHP

2009-05-06 Thread Jesse Callaway
I think the idea is that MySQL had a decent business model and was doing quite well. If Oracle does decide to shitcan it, it's GPL'd anyway and will live on kinda like CentOS does. -jesse On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:53 PM, SusanS wrote: > Now that Oracle has bought Sun (and also MySQL), is there an

[nyphp-talk] databases with PHP

2009-05-06 Thread SusanS
Now that Oracle has bought Sun (and also MySQL), is there any discussion in the community about a change in open-source databases? ___ New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.ny