Hmmm... right.
You can compare the server to the instance.
And the user to the DB (in the scheme, not at authentication)
Thanx for the pointer!
/rudy
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Smith [mailto:j.smith@stripped]
Sent: donderdag 17 juli 2003 11:06
To: Rudy Metzger; 'Harald Falkenberg'; mysql@stripped
Subject: RE: mysql setup compared to oracle
> 1. No, especially not MyISAM. In MyISAM, a database (you can compare
> that to instance) is just a directory on disk. Every table in this DB
> (instance) again is file (well actually 3 files, one for data, one for
> metadata, one for index information).
Actually the server is equivalent to an instance
