[Building Sakai] MySQL or HSQLDB

[Mark Norton]

If you happen to be installing MySQL on Windows, the install wizard will 
give you the choice of database. Innodb is the right one.  I also have 
used MySQL for years doing Sakai development work.

- Mark Norton

Anthony Whyte wrote:
> I also use MySQL as my development database.  Be sure to choose Innodb as your default database engine since it provides transaction support, foreign key support, row-level locking, etc.  You can specify Innodb as your default engine by creating a /etc/my.cnf file (example below):
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> Anthony
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> On Mar 17, 2010, at 7:19 PM, Aaron Zeckoski wrote:
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>> HSQLDB does not support transactions or multiple connections. I always
>> use mysql for development.
>> -AZ
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>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Warwick Chapman
>> <warwickchapman at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Hi All
>>> Following on from my previous mail "Install 2.7", I see there is an option
>>> to use MySQL or other DBMS instead of the default HSQLDB.
>>> I come from a LAMP(ython) background and am more familiar with MySQL than I
>>> am with HSQLDB.
>>> Other than familiarity, ss there any reason to use MySQL instead of HSQLDB?
>>> -- Warwick Bruce Chapman | +27 83 7797 094 | http://warwickchapman.com
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>> Aaron Zeckoski - Software Engineer - http://tinyurl.com/azprofile
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