[Info-vax] MariaDB (Re: OT: what is old is new again?)

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/23/2016 12:27 PM, Neil Rieck wrote:
> First off, while I have been using Mark's port of MariaDB-5.5-25
> since 2014, we have noticed a few issues. When you check the blogs
> most people say something like "Oh, that problem went away when we
> upgraded to MariaDB-10.1"
>
> I understand Mark works for a division of HP/HPE that is being
> outsourced so he is very busy doing work that results in putting food
> on the table. That said, with no version of MariaDB-10 on the horizon
> for OpenVMS, I have resorted to installing CentOS Linux on a nearby
> server, then installing MariaDB-10.1.19 which we access from our
> OpenVMS development platform via the network. (think of this
> experiment as an alternative form of SAN; I did this only to see if
> our issues just went away, which they did)

Application on one system accessing database on another system is
the most common today, so ...

Arne