Re: [GENERAL] between

2003-12-27 Thread Casey Allen Shobe
Mike Nolan (Friday 26 December 2003 16:02) > Sometimes books are still better than online docs. :-) No, the online docs simply need an index with links :-). If I could look at a complete index and quickly find BETWEEN in the B's with links to applicable sections, I would have no other wish of

Re: [GENERAL] Is my MySQL Gaining ?

2003-12-27 Thread Casey Allen Shobe
Chris Travers (Saturday 27 December 2003 06:44) > In short, I do not see MySQL as any sort of threat to PostgreSQL, near or > long-term. PostgreSQL will continue when MySQL no longer exists. Firebird > is a more serious competitor long-term, though I found it to be hard to > learn when compared t

Re: [GENERAL] Is my MySQL Gaining ?

2003-12-27 Thread Casey Allen Shobe
Jan Wieck (Friday 26 December 2003 10:02) > The strategy of misguiding people like "you don't need foreign keys", "you > don't need stored procedures", "yadda yadda triggers", "blah blah views" > didn't work forever. PRECISELY my point! But so many ignorant users fall for this and babble on sayi

Re: [GENERAL] Is my MySQL Gaining ?

2003-12-27 Thread Dave Cramer
Regardless of the reasons, perception is reality. If we appear to be disheveled then we are. I would think that it should be possible to give the appearance of unity without actually requiring a full time web-master? Dave On Fri, 2003-12-26 at 12:43, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Fri, 26 Dec 200

Re: [GENERAL] Is my MySQL Gaining ?

2003-12-27 Thread Casey Allen Shobe
Martin Marques (Friday 26 December 2003 14:11) > Windows native port might be out in the next release (name it 7.5 or 8.0), > with many other things there, and it should be out by fall of next year, > which is much earlier then 2 years. :-) Great. But I really don't see how this makes the DBMS an

Re: [GENERAL] Is my MySQL Gaining ?

2003-12-27 Thread Chris Travers
Hi all, Comments inline - Original Message - From: "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chris Travers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 9:18 AM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Is my MySQL Gaining ? > On