Arthur Fuller
artful at rogers.com
Tue Mar 29 10:41:05 CST 2005
No beta is ready for production use! LOL. Many would argue, in fact, that any software whose minor number is zero is not ready for production. That said, the MySQL crew works hard on their product and issues frequent updates. The big deal in version 5 is stored procedures + views. While writing the e-book, we found a number of problems but I trust that they will address them quickly. They have already addressed several of them. If you want to use MySQL for production, install version 4 on your production box and version 5 on your development box. Use some front end such as Access or the MySQL query manager so you can save your queries. As you might guess, I'm kinda partial to Access. The point is, you want a way to save your queries so that you can quickly turn them into sprocs and views. Depending on the front end you want to go with, you can design your strategy to maximize the payoff once you decide that version 5 is solid enough for production use. Now all we have to do is persuade the MySQL people to implement MS-SQL-style UDFs. That would be a real treat! Robert L. Stewart wrote: > Arthur, > > Since what you have written about is still a beta version according to > MySQL's web site, how stable is it? Is it ready for production use? > > Robert > > At 12:00 PM 3/26/2005 -0600, you wrote: > >> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 11:56:07 -0500 >> From: Arthur Fuller <artful at rogers.com> >> Subject: [dba-SQLServer] Shameless Plug >> To: dba-sqlserver at databaseadvisors.com >> Message-ID: <42459427.60307 at rogers.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >> >> Our MySQL book is now up as a web site. (Our = Peter Brawley and Arthur >> Fuller). Visit http://www.artfulsoftware.com/ for a free download of >> sample chapters and a paid download of the remainder. I hope you enjoy >> what you read for free. >> >> Arthur > > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-SQLServer mailing list > dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver > http://www.databaseadvisors.com > >