[TriLUG] Interesting article: Ellison: Linux will wipe Microsoft out of the data center

[Lee Fickenscher]

LOL, why whould the call BLOBs (Binary Large OBjects for those who don't
know) TEXT?

-Lee

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 02:10:52PM -0500, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 13:53, Joseph Tate wrote:
> > Stored procedures (PL/pgSQL or C).  Triggers.  I can't remember if Mysql 
> > supports BLOBs or not, but Postgres does.  Up until 4.x there wasn't any 
> > transaction support (Commit/Rollback) in Mysql.
> > 
> 
> MySQL does support BLOB equivalents (called TEXT I believe), and what
> I've heard is that they perform much better than Postgres. But yes, the
> lack of stored procedures and triggers does make MySQL much less
> useful.   I haven't played with MySQL 4 yet, but the 3.23 versions don't
> even support row-level locking or transactions (unless you use a
> non-free(dom) software table type).
> 
> --Jeremy
> 
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