Installing MySQL

[robinirwin]

I have made use of MySQL and PHP for quite a while, but never actually installed MySQL. I would like to install on a windows xp server but my administrator has issues with this install saying that it will slow down the server too much.

Is this really true considering the load of queries will be tiny?
Would i be right in saying that installing SQL Server on the machine is a completely different scenario and perhaps this is what he maybe is thinking of? (i think he tried it before)

Any advice, information would be appreciated.

 

[genoa]

I'm running MySQL on a Windows 98 system with 256megs of RAM and a 466mhz CPU.

Tell your admin I'm after his job.

·genoa

If a dog craps in the yard and buries it, is that considered steganography?

 

[genoa]

Oh wait. And not only that... but while I'm making SQL queries, I'm also running Photoshop 5.5 and tons of IE tasks at the same time... Oh and Apache2.

·genoa

If a dog craps in the yard and buries it, is that considered steganography?

 

[robinirwin]

I thought so... I have run it on my own desktop PC with Apache also...

Thanks. I just wanted to be sure.

So basically SQL Server is a service which can be used also but only really for a dedicated machine handling lots of traffic...

 

[genoa]

Sorry if I sound a bit evil.

·genoa

If a dog craps in the yard and buries it, is that considered steganography?

 

[genoa]

Basically. Unless you are planning on receiving thousands of queries, or queries to extremely large tables... I wouldn't sweat it.

I have yet to overload this thing.

·genoa

If a dog craps in the yard and buries it, is that considered steganography?

 

[rzs0502]

My PIII 700 with 128MB of RAM and WinXP runs MySQL 4, PhP, Apache, IIS and SQL Server Dev Edition.
SQL Server is the only one that slows down my PC a bit but the rest of them run using a fraction of memory.

 

[Morsing]

My MySQL process has been up for over a hundred days and it has used 55 mins CPU time. That's 30secs a day or 1/3000 sec on average.

MySQL keeps a low profile indeed.

Cheers

Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support