MySQL is an open source database utility. See below for further details.
MySQL Defined in Detail
http://www.mysql.com/ says: "MySQL is the world's most popular Open Source Database, designed for speed, power and precision in mission critical, heavy load use." In Sep 2002, they won the Linux Journal's Editors' Choice Award -from the article: "If you're one of the people who has been saying, 'I can't use MySQL because it doesn't have [feature you need here]', it's time to read up on MySQL 4.0 and try it out on a development system. Can you say, 'full support for transactions and row- level locking'? 'UNION'? 'Full text search'?
See http://www.tizag.com/mysqlTutorial/ for a tutorial using php and mysql to teach using mysql databases. See http://www.analysisandsolutions.com/code/mybasic.htm for a tips on installing mysql on windows. See also http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/Beginning-MySQL-Tutorial/ .
http://linuxfocus.org/English/March2004/article331.shtml is an article on using Tcl, MySQL, and the MySQLTcl library.
"The new MySQL is even available as a library you can compile into your application. Proprietary licenses are available if you can't use the GPL."
Other opinions (free speech section)
* FBSQL - live and current site (as of 09/2003) with Win32 binaries, .c source "should also compile on Unix platforms with some minor modifications". Solaris tarball provided. (An attempt to use FBSQL met with frustration... I can't get the fbsql.dll at http://www.fastbase.co.nz/fbsql/index.html to load into ActiveTcl 8.4.5. --Chris Nelson 2004-01-29)
Silas - 2005.10.05 - I've used the following code to test the MySQL remote server each one second with a recursive proc and connect if the internet is on (I'm using FBSQL here):
#make the connection proc mysqlConnect {} { set error [catch { set result [exec ping -c 1 $glo::db(host) | grep received] } error_message] if {$error} { if {$glo::db(connected)} { tk_messageBox -message "The connection has been lost. It will be connected in $glo::db(time) seconds." set glo::db(connected) 0 } puts $error_message after [expr $glo::db(time) * 1000] {mysqlConnect} return } set index [string first {1 received} $result] puts "($index) $result" if {$index && $glo::db(connected) == 0} { if {[tk_messageBox -message "The net is OK. Do you want to connect?" -type yesno] == yes} { set error [catch {sql connect $glo::db(host) $glo::db(user) $glo::db(pass)} error_message] sql selectdb $glo::db(db) set glo::db(connected) 1 } } after [expr $glo::db(tempo) * 1000] {mysqlConnect} }
Future of MySQL?
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