[GRLUG] meeting

[Szymon Machajewski]

I appreciate the discussion of databases and maybe we should continue
this as one of the meeting agenda items.  

I wouldn't mind adding a MySQL topic to the presentations for a future
meeting.   Maybe backup techniques, 5.0 upgrade etc.

If MS Access is part of the discussion it makes sens to also add the
OpenOffice Base desktop database.



Szymon Machajewski

Solutions Engineer / DBA
Red Hat Certified Engineer
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer
www.grcc.edu/smachaje 


>>> billl at mtd-inc.com 5/28/2006 2:03:37 pm >>>
Yeah, I know MySQL can handle some big tasks, my statement was more 
about manageability.
If your a small shop with one guy doing everything your gonna use what

is easy to implement and/or cheap.
With our DB needs mostly being met by Access 2003, the only need for a

DB server is to support eGroupware.
I think it's actually a pretty good statement about MySQL, that the 
one-man-IT-dept. can use it and call it easy, and Wikipedia can use it

to handle 8.4Gb. The truth be told, I wouldn't shy away from MySQL if 
our needs grow to require a business critical DB backend. I would 
definetely make sure I had good support for it though, but that goes
for 
anything.
Bill


Tim Schmidt wrote:
> Damn.  Forgot the link:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesDatabaseSize.htm 
>
> On 5/27/06, Tim Schmidt <timschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On 5/26/06, Bill Littlejohn <billl at mtd-inc.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> We're not big enough to use Oracle, or in fact any DBS bigger than
MSDE
>>> or MySQL.
>>>       
>> So...  nothing bigger than the 8.4Gb Wikipedia is managing?
>>
>> Good to know.
>>
>> :)
>>
>> --tim
>>
>>     
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