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On Fri, 9 May 1997, Tim Sailer wrote:

> In your email to me, Dirk Herr-Hoyman, you wrote:
> > 
> > At 07:58 AM 5/9/97 -0400, Tim Sailer wrote:
> > >In your email to me, Rob Browning, you wrote:
> > 
> > >> I've kind of settled on postgress, partially because I was curious
> > >> about SQL, and also because it appears to be capable of anything I
> > >> could want to do.  It's probably overkill, but that's OK.
> > >
> > >You should take a look at MySQL also. It should do what you want,
> > >and is extremely fast too. Quite a few of us here on the mailing
> > >list use it already.
> > >
> > >Tim
> > >
> > 
> > MySQL does look like the real deal.  I was not aware of it, it certainly
> > looks to be better than mSQL.
> > 
> > Is MySQL stable enough to be included as a debian dpkg?  I did see that a
> > Redhat RPM package is available.  
> 
> mysql and the dbi/dbd perl drivers for it are already in hamm. I'm using
> both the debianized and scratch built versions. It's still under heavy
> development, but *very* stable. Bugs are fixed within hours of being
> reported in most caese.

Thanks for all the responses - I think I'll take a look at mySQL on the
weekend. Cheers, Colin.

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                School of Policy Studies, Queen's University
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