Adam Powell (adam@stripped) writes:
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> http://slashdot.org/articles/00/05/05/0920247.shtml
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> Does anybody have any comments about this article? :) They arent being very
> nice... (read below)... my concern is with the last part, the table level
> locking... I have been told by some people that its our major bottleneck,
> however by reading the mySQL site it says that table level locking is better
> than row-level for some things... and Im still not sure which is better.
It all depends on what you want to do. I'd love for MySQL to implement row-
level-locking by default instead of table-level - it'd certainly speed things
up for web-based database access. In fact, that's probably my #1 request for MySQL...
