[AccessD] OT: open source

Susan Harkins said the following on 4/6/2004 4:21 PM:

>=========All of the above. The documentation is some of the worst around --
>it use to be. MS is rather dry, cryptic, and even sometimes wrong, but you
>can understand it. I could barely read through the MySQL documentation. Mind
>you it's been a few years so they've probably improved things a lot as
>they've grown (I would hope). Just personal experience though -- I don't
>like to work so hard. :) 
>  
>
IF... it's been a few years since you've used/played w/ the 
documentation how can you declare that "

The documentation is some of the worst around".  MySql has had a close connectiong w/ Linux and thus their documentation has many examples w/ *nix syntax.  And if a documentation is wrong, how is it better? :)

I just visited MySql.com and found their available manual.  skimming through a chapter it all reads straight forward.  However I will say this... they are distributing it in PDF and HTML, and the PDF is no BOL :), however If you just do a search on their site for keywords on things you need say.. "CREATE TABLE" then you get all the proper syntax in a very much BOL type fashion except it's ONLINE not offline, and by skimming their documentation page it looks like you can d/l that as well, tho I don't know if searching is available locally.



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-Francisco