Re: MV3.12: Do I NEED MySQL?

[mikeh@minivend.com]

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Quoting John Foster (jfoster@augustmail.com):
> As I mentioned earlier I have a large database (and It will be larger)
> of 99,916 items. I can build and manipulate these databases with Lotus
> Approach and produce a products.asc file that adheres to the
> current(simple.cat) format. I tried doing that and the catalog tried to
> load (I guess). I let it try for about 7 minutes. Then the thing just
> locked up and I had to close the browser window to clear it. It was at
> that point that I figured that I need SQL.I want to know if I really
> NEED an SQL server to use Minivend with a DB of this size. I have read
> the (very skimpy) instructions regarding MiniVend and SQL servers and it
> seems to me that MV actually imports the database into its internal DB
> manager anyway. Regardless of where they are generated from. Is that
> correct? If that is the case then I don't see the need for SQL in my
> setup. I only have 3 fields in my MV DB anyway: code description ,
> price.

This is just import time; your database is never really being
created. If you use the offline import method as detailed in the docs 
it should work fine.

I have users who use the MV internal database with a million records.

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