[AccessD] OT: Yee Haw....

Hi Arthur

Just curious: Are you making progress with your book on MySQL?

Do you have some clever suggestions on how to circumvent the missing
subqueries in MySQL?

/gustav


> Lest we be seen to agree in public, JC, let me object that MySQL can work on
> big iron, too. And if you have 120M rows in a table and need to select the
> top 10 according to some column(s), nothing can do it quicker than MySQL. It
> lacks a lot, but speed isn't on the list.
> So the big iron folks unafraid of Linux and having 120M rows in various
> tables (c.f. Yahoo) use MySQL. The banks and the other suits trust Larry.
> All the same, a MySQL install is a little like an Austin Healey 3000. Be
> prepared to tinker, and to have to know stuff that mere mortals cannot
> fathom :-) OTOH I notice that the Linux guys get more money per hour than us
> Windoze guys.