RE: [TCLUG:13347] DB Wars

["Schlough, Mark" <Mark.Schlough@nmb.norwest.com>]

> MySQL is pretty damn cool.  It all comes down to transaction
> support.  I wouldn't worry too much about the subselects -
> it can be annoying, but it's not too critical.  Another thing
> MySQL lacks is stored procedures.
> 
> If you are using Java or Perl, it's easy to switch to something
> else in the future.  Transitioning you code to using the new
> features will be a pain, but you don't have to rewrite everything
> if you don't want or need to.
> 
> I'm currently using MySQL pretty heavily with JDBC (in Apache
> JServ on Solaris) and it performs exceptionally well, especially 
> after I figured out how to do connection pooling properly.
	[Schlough, Mark]  

	How did you get the pooling working?  I'd like to know how that
works.

	TIA

	Mark