[Gllug] MySQL Bashing - was very very cheap hosting

[Martin A. Brooks]

Ian Norton wrote:

>Honestly, Ive been using mysql for about 3 years, it is fast, reliable, quick
>to install and easy to backup. Once more it is GPL. 
>  
>
Until it got ACID compliant transactions, it wasn't possible to back up 
the database while it was online unless you obtained a lock on every 
table.  Even now on mixed table type databases there are still race 
conditions where you could end up with an inconsistent data.

Regards

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Martin A. Brooks, Clues Ltd.
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