2010/1/11 Herbert König <herbertkoenig at gmx.net>:
> Hi John,
>
>
> JC> it fails.  Am I missing something?
>
> no you do it exactly right as you use the native mysql driver which is
> - quite old
> - gpl which may or may not be a problem
> - only works if you
>  -open a connection -fire a query -get the result
>  -close the connection!!  -repeat ad infinitum.
>
> Take a look at SqueakDBX which (according to their Benchmarks) is
> faster and blocks the image much less.
>
> I use the native driver in a commercial in house app for years but I
> tested SqueakDBX http://www.squeakdbx.org/ enough to be sure it does
> the same work without the drawbacks.
>
> Now only someone has to pay me to rewrite quite an amount of software
> which is working well to use the better driver :-))
>

Or use better DB - CouchDB ;)

>
> Cheers,
>
> Herbert                            mailto:herbertkoenig at gmx.net
>
>
>



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