Re: Max size and row numbers

2006-12-29 Thread Philip Mather
Olaf, That's a very broad question depending upon your exact requirements to be honest. So long as you've considered file size limitations and you've opted for a decent RAID system there's not too much more to worry about, try and buy the fastest disks possible obviously i.e. 15,000 RPM one

Re: Max size and row numbers

2006-12-29 Thread Philip Mather
Olaf, Thanks for the detailed answer. So basically the limitations come from the OS and the file system used. What is the best file system to use for mysql (not considering the filesize limitations)? Thanks Olaf The "best" is probably ZFS if you really are intent on make things huge, http:/

Re: Max size and row numbers

2006-12-29 Thread Olaf Stein
Thanks for the detailed answer. So basically the limitations come from the OS and the file system used. What is the best file system to use for mysql (not considering the filesize limitations)? Thanks Olaf On 12/29/06 2:25 AM, "ViSolve DB Team" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > The maxim

Re: Max size and row numbers

2006-12-28 Thread ViSolve DB Team
Hi, The maximum effective table size for MySQL databases is usually determined by operating system constraints on file sizes, not by MySQL internal limits. If you need a MyISAM table that is larger than 4GB in size (and your operating system supports large files), the CREATE TABLE statement all

RE: max size of TEXT columns

2006-05-29 Thread Robert DiFalco
FWIW, IMO LOB handling is really where MySQL lags behind all other enterprise database solutions. Firebird, DB2, Oracle, et al all are able to stream LOB data to and from disk so that it does not all need to be loaded in memory (multiple times for a single LOB). I would call this a bug but others w

Re: max size of TEXT columns

2006-05-29 Thread Paul DuBois
At 17:06 +0200 5/29/06, schlubediwup wrote: 2. problem according do the mysql docu TEXT/BLOB fields depend solely on the db environment and can grow to any length: 11.4.3. The |BLOB| and |TEXT| Types The maximum size of a |BLOB| or |TEXT| object is determined by its type, but "d

Re: Max size

2003-08-19 Thread Miguel Perez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Max size Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 23:43:19 -0700 On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 02:33:04PM -0500, Miguel Perez wrote: > > I have an ibdata file that its size is 4.5GB, and it will increase > every day the max size of the hard disk is about 330GB, the question > is shoul

Re: Max size

2003-08-18 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 02:33:04PM -0500, Miguel Perez wrote: > > I have an ibdata file that its size is 4.5GB, and it will increase > every day the max size of the hard disk is about 330GB, the question > is should I split this ibdata file in several files in a way that I > can reach this size? D