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[will]

Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> On Wed 17 Jul, John HEARNS made the following spurious claims:
> 
> 
>>I'm no database guru, but David Axmark did discuss ACID.
>>Maybe he fudged it, but IIRC he did say that MySQL passes this
>>test, and my notes seem to confirm this.
>>(I should say that I like MySQL)
> 
> 
> Does MySQL support transactions yet?  If not, it fails.
> 
> The response to this from the MySQL developers has traditionally been
> "do it in your own software".  Thing is, I'm not a database developer
> and the people who are do this kinda shit MUCH more effectively than
> me.  I'd rather trust a database to look after my data (isn't that the
> point?) than my own bodgy code.
> 

MySQL Server supports transactions with the InnoDB and BDB Transactional table 
handlers:

http://www.mysql.com/doc/A/N/ANSI_diff_Transactions.html

Will



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