well i have about 9000 customers using it right now so i think im
going to just duplicate my database and app, making some tests along
the way.

On Aug 14, 5:18 pm, anders als <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you aren't in "production" mode and do not have any customer who
> waits for its website, just try it ;)
>
> On 14 Aug., 23:09, JamesF <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > no i just want to alter my current mysql database to use innodb
> > without affecting the model relationships. it is a trivial thing to
> > change the storage engine but I am not sure of the results.
>
> > On Aug 14, 5:07 pm, anders als <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > So, you want Cake to use MyISAM "syntax" for an InnoDB driven sql
> > > server?
> > > I think this is possible doing some configurations inside of the
> > > database related core files
>
> > > On 14 Aug., 22:26, JamesF <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > Whnn I first set up the current app I am using, I chose InnoDB tables
> > > > for almost any Model that i thought would be related. My thinking was
> > > > that Cake wouldn't understand the foreign key relationships and it
> > > > would lead to database integrity problems.
>
> > > > I am assuming that Cake doesn't care which storage engine I use in the
> > > > case of simple model relationships. I am not using transactions or row
> > > > level locking currently, and more often then not, the CASCADE effect
> > > > of InnoDB tables has made some of my data go bye-bye.
>
> > > > I appreciate that InnoDB prevents me from inserting data with
> > > > incorrect id's and fk id's but it also deletes child data when i don't
> > > > want it to (unless i use RESTRICT or SET NULL on that fk).
>
> > > > So the crux of my question is this, can I maintain my current app
> > > > functionality while converting back to MyISAM tables, considering I do
> > > > not use any advanced InnoDB features? Will Cake still handle my table
> > > > relationships correctly when I am following proper naming conventions
> > > > for foreign keys and table names?
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