Arthur Fuller
artful at rogers.com
Fri Feb 7 15:43:01 CST 2003
1. Que cancelled the book. Peter and I are posting chapters gradually to our website. See http://www.artfulsoftware.com 2. Download the current gamma, whose support for these constructs is... well, on the way :-) 3. Alternatively, use Access as the FE, MyODBC as the bridge and MySQL as the BE, wherever it resides and atop whatever platform. Save named queries in the standard Access way, building atomic then molecular queries. -----Original Message----- From: accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-admin at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock Sent: February 7, 2003 2:51 PM To: Arthur Fuller Subject: Re: [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. _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com