From: Jan Steinman Date: July 17 2010 4:37pm Subject: Re: Myisam advantages List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/222239 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > From: "P.R.Karthik" > > I am newbie to mysql can i know the advantages of myisam storage > engine > and some of its special features. Works better with file-based incremental backup systems. With InnoDB, you end up backing up a humongous file of all your InnoDB tables, even if only one byte in one field of one table of one database was touched. ---------------- There are only two ways to look at life: One is as if nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op ::::