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[Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg]

On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Joe Crawford wrote:

> anyone here know how hard/easy it is to upgrade the mysql version that
> is pre-packed with XAMPP?

Don't know anything about XAMPP.

> they have version 4.0.20 and i would like to upgrade to 4.1

This can be a tricky upgrade, as you need to either use mysqli or pass
a special flag to the MySQL server to ensure the mysql extension works correctly.

> also anyone here used the SQLite extension?  Is this better to use than
> MySQL?

The are totally different beasts. SQLite is an embedded database
library. MySQL is a database server.

SQLite isn't a separate program, like MySQL is. This has advantages
(installation, set up, speed in some instances), and disadvantages
(access control, replication, speed in some instances).

-adam

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