Apologies: the Debain linux install command should be sudo apt-get install mysql-server not sudo apt-cache as I wrote above.

If you are using Debian linux, you can install MySQL with a simple: sudo apt-cache install mysql-server. This will take care of all the group and user creations, the mysql_install_db...

bnordberg I think you must have some serious config issues if you are finding a myisam table's performance to be worse than access.

Some of these posts really get to the...

A good and balanced article. I take exception to the final sentence in the MyISAM section though: "Overall for small read-only data sets Myisam out of the box (Downloaded from...