In the last episode (Jan 25), Daevid Vincent said:
> I don't "get it"... I mean, I get the concept -- it's a crontab; but why
> would someone opt to put these events here instead of in the God-given
> CRONTAB as everything else in the system uses? This just seems like one
> more place to forget about a query/code and have "unexpected" things
> happen.
For a hosted environment (or a restricted corporate environment), it means
you don't have to give your users shell accounts; they can schedule table
cleanup operations, summary table refreshes, and other operations completely
within MySQL. The events will also fire the same whether the server is
running Unix or Windows.
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Dan Nelson
dnelson@stripped
