[NTLUG:Discuss] Capabilities of MySQL

Bug Hunter bughuntr at one.ctelcom.net
Thu Apr 20 10:54:25 CDT 2000


  MySQL is limited to the natural file size on linux file system it is
established on.  That is currently 2 gigabytes.  The 2.2 + kernels will
allow bigger file sizes, assuming the underlying file system supports it.
You can easily stuff 1 million records in mysql files and it will do just
fine.


On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Steve Jackson wrote:

> I am designing a database driven app (on Linux of course), and I was
> wondering if MySQL is a capable database engine when accessing tables
> with 500,000 records (or 1,000,000)?  If no, what is the largest table
> size that MySQL can handle?  Thanks.
> 
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