Re: People looking for win32 downloads

[Ed Barlow]

Im a 13 year SQL veteran - ive worked extensively with oracle and sybase
for most every major wall street firm - and it took a full day to find,
download,
and install the windows version of mysql.  Neither what needs to be
downloaded
nor the license nor the instructions are easy to find and use.

The downloads page at mysql.com needs some work.  

This should have been a 10 minute task.

Ed

"Jonah H. Harris" wrote:
> 
> This is just my analysis and opinion.
> 
> If people can't find the download, do they really have any business being DB
> administrators...  If they have no idea how to click
> 
> Downloads->MySQL 3.23 -- BETA->Standard binary (tarball)
> distributions:Windows 95/NT (Intel)
> 
> How will they know how to setup a DB, use a DB, or what a DB is for.  You
> have to learn to use webpages before you can code interfaces to databases
> via the web (as I have lately seen messages about).  It's too bad that this
> has turned from a MySQL help list to a HTML/ASP/PHP help list.  You can't
> play a game without learning the rules... neither can you install/setup a
> database (worth a damn) if you don't know the conditions surrounding it.
> 
> Either have a separate board for Newbies trying to make Win95/98 into
> IIS/ASP/DB servers, or redefine the nature of this list.
> 
> It just irritates me, as a developer, to see people waste other developers
> time with simple... easy to answer questions.  For heaven's sake (oh no, I
> might get another 10 emails of the stupid "Christian TV Loss" crap) people,
> use your brains and find things out for yourself instead of just asking.  If
> you learn it for yourself it sticks with you better and you can apply it.
> 
> Jonah H. Harris, MCSE/MCSD
> CEO/President
> NightStar Corporation
> 
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