Well everyone and their dog’s host is using MySQL 4.0 now, so in my quest to forever remain on the bleeding edge (and after some local testing) I installed it on the server and it’s humming along nicely. People may think that staying with the latest version is less stable or something, but I’ve been following the 4 branch since it went public and in all that time I’ve only had one problem (with 4.0.4 I believe), and a minute later I just downgraded back to my old version and reported the bug to the mailing list. It was fixed in the next release. What’s that you say? Your host is still on 3.23? You want a query cache and sub-queries and UNION? Well I know a place where the bandwidth flows freely and the software is always up to date. Let me know you’re signing up and I’ll hook you up with a discount. Update: Whoa! Either there’s something wrong with my benchmarks or there have been some major performance improvements in this version. I’m extremely impressed.
I want to have a clue what a query catch and UNION is to begin with.
We had issues with MySQL 4 and downgraded. Then again, we have a lot of users using perl based blog software. Someday they will all use WP and the world will be perfect again. Someday. 😉
Oh. Oops. It was upgraded without me even noticing. Blogomania (another wonderful host) is now using 4.0.12. We’re in the midst of a server move, so I’m not going to push it yet. Oh, and I do discounts too. 😉
I SO want to learn how to us MySql. I have it installed but havent a clue how to implement it. *wimpering*
Christine, no link? It’s Blogomania for the typing impaired.
Tudy, you should play with it! PHP is the easiest language to use, and there are lots of great tutorials free on the web and and some great books.