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Re: Help with INO/ISAM
Posted by: Jim Winstead
Date: November 03, 2004 09:14PM

tedbunk wrote:
> Could anyone tell me why INO (?) would be more
> transaction safe than ISAM (Indexed Sequential
> Access Method) or would it?

MySQL's InnoDB storage engine supports transactions, the MyISAM (and old ISAM) storage engines simply do not. ISAM is a general term -- it is possible to implement a database management system that supports transactions that uses such a storage method, MySQL currently does not.

Jim Winstead
MySQL/Sun

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