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You might know already why "we're not dumping MySQL". It is because Everything is MySQL specific.

 
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Re: Re: Re: using linux
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 29, 2003 at 12:57 UTC

    Which is an absolutely awful design decision, but that's another debate :-)

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      how is that a bad decision? what alternatives do you suggest? mysql is certainly faster than slurping files.
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        Think of DBI, a consistant interface so one can switch databases with minimum effort. Feel like Oracle one week? Postgre the next? That's how it should be designed.

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