RE: [PHP-DB] PHP can't lose to Micro$oft - Please HELP!

Check this out: Currently Mytrix provides extended statistics for more than 200 000 web resources, accounting for more than 70 million events per day. The "raw" gathered data is stored in a self-implemented data warehouse, and statistics of it are stored in MySQL databases. MySQL is used for extensive analysis of the data. For a couple of years MyISAM tables were used to store the processed data. We found that the InnoDB support for transactions, row level locks, and fast automatic crash recovery gives us an advantage, so we are migrating to InnoDB now. Totally we have about 30 servers (mostly Dual PIII with 1-2 GB of RAM) which have in total more than 1 TB of data stored in MySQL databases. The number of tables is more than 100 000 (small tables were used with MyISAM to overcome concurrency problems in table level locking used with MyISAM). The tables contain more than 20 000 000 000 rows in total. At 07:44 AM 10/11/2001 +0200, Helge A. Kraenz (FF) wrote:

I'm absolutely no fan of commercial software but Oracle actually has (or has had) some advantages compared with MySQL: - You can make subqueries, e.g. "select * from ( select * from table )" - You can (not easily, OK) handle LOB with a size up to 2 GB - Oracle can handle LARGE databases (>> 10GB >100GB) - I don't know wheter MySQL is able to do this Maybe MySQL was improved since the last time I read anything about these features but otherwise if you need any of these features you cannot use MySQL or you have to implement time consuming workarounds. If you don't rely on these features, throw any commercial database away and use Postgres or MySQL. My strongest suggestion is to drop MS Windows and to move to Unix/Linux with you webserver this saves a lot of money and prevents you from many crashes - I never get my Linux system to crash but my Win2K system freezes each day when I shut it down. Helge -----Original Message----- From: Dave Watkinson [mailto:d.watkinson@mightymatch.com] Sent: Donnerstag, 11. Oktober 2001 07:12 To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP-DB] PHP can't lose to Micro$oft - Please HELP! we dropped Oracle Java and IIS for MySQL PHP and Apache. We spent a *hell* of a lot of money that we won't get back (anybody want a second hand Oracle licence!!!), but the systems is about a million times faster, more efficient, easier to improve, stable, platform & browser independent than ever before. I say you suggest dropping everything and look at the situation as a whole - not just cost but also features, ease of use (why recompile crappy Java Applets every five minutes when you can use Notepad?!) and evertthing else I listed above. Cheers Dave -----Original Message----- From: Jason G. [mailto:blair@nb.net] Sent: 11 October 2001 06:21 To: Notmy Realname; php-db@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] PHP can't lose to Micro$oft - Please HELP! I do not know much about informix, but personally, if MySQL or PostgreSQL is better, then who cares how much you spent on informix. Use the best tool for the job! At 10:11 PM 10/10/2001 -0700, Notmy Realname wrote:

Situation: Small software company is at a cross-road. Do we use ASP

(Win 2k, IIS,

VB...) or PHP (UNIX, Apache...). Currently we have two teams

working on

prototypes for this project. The Micro$oft pets (ASP) vs. the PHP free-spirits (btw, PHP is way ahead in features

implemented!). Good vs.

Evil, right? :) Anyway, THE PROBLEM: We use INFORMIX IDS 7.3 (Windows) for db. Can't change that (spent to

much

money on it). The problem we are having is this: We create a persistent connection with the Informix server:

    $database   = "tst22";
    $server    = "some_db_server";
    $login      = "blah";
    $password   = "blabblah";

    $dbs = $database."@".$server;

    $connect_id_roll = ifx_pconnect($dbs,$login,$password);     <--

Line

51 --|

    if (!$connect_id_roll) {
     echo "Unable to connect to Informix database<br>\n";
     chk_ifx_err1($connect_id_roll);
    }
    ... (our code)

This works fine; most of the time that is, until we get this

(somewhat

randomly): Warning: E [SQLSTATE=08 002 SQLCODE=-1802] in d:\apache_webdocs\php_demo\roll_list.php on line 51 Unable to connect to Informix database Informix error: E [SQLSTATE=08 002 SQLCODE=-1802] Connection name in use. The ifx_error function return the following string: x [SQLSTATE = aa bbb SQLCODE=cccc] where x = space : no error E : error N : no more data W : warning ? : undefined W : warning So, until we fix this problem we can't proceed to develop

the reset of the

application the boss says, which is quite understandable,

and of course the

other team is closing in (although buggy as hell) we can't afford to

let the

Micro$oft script kitties win this one, can we?! Please help. Thanks in advance, Anonymouse Self -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail:

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