[geeks] Databases

joshua d boyd geeks at sunhelp.org
Sat Aug 25 00:30:45 CDT 2001


On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 12:04:22AM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 12:58:07AM -0400, joshua d boyd wrote:
> > Are you going to 7 or 2000?  I've used and wasn't impressed with 7,
> > although it is definately better than Access, and it did behave reasonably
> > competently (but then I didn't stress it either.  Except for lack of
> > transactions, MySQL also would have been a good fit).  I haven't tried
> > 2000, but I haven't heard anything significant about it other than XML
> > support, which may or may not actually be usefull.
> 
> MySQL supports transactions now.

I heard it did, but got the impression that it was still somewhat
experimental.  But then, so is SQL Server, so I guess it all works out.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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