Gustav Brock
gustav at cactus.dk
Sat Feb 8 05:13:01 CST 2003
Hi Arthur > 1. Que cancelled the book. Peter and I are posting chapters gradually to our > website. See http://www.artfulsoftware.com Oh, that's a pitty; it looked promising. On those chapters: That's very kind of you. But none is published yet, right? (Can't find any). > 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. That is, of course, a straightforward possibility. /gustav > 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? >> 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.