Network World

Differences between MySQL character data types; The costs of data across a WAN

Q: Do different types of data have different costs of data for the same quantity? For instance, is using an equivalent amount of bandwidth, say 10Mb, viewing web pages more or less expensive than ...
TechWell

Choosing a Storage Engine in MySQL Database

The MEMORY storage engine stores all data in memory (RAM), and is used for fast lookup of data. InnoDB supports a buffer pool ...
InfoWorld

Percona curbs MySQL memory hunger

Percona's enhanced MySQL MEMORY storage engine can accept any data type, paving the way for use of more efficient data types Percona has updated its version of MySQL so that the software’s storage ...
Network World

Differences between MySQL character data types

We have an XML schema defining documents that contain paragraphs of text collected from Web-based survey response forms, and we want to store them in a MySQL database. MySQL provides three data types ...