On Tuesday, 19 June 2007, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote: > Jacques Voris writes: > > Therefore, I wish to know if any of you have any experience with > > using a SQL database for the data store, or if it is such a bad idea > > what specific reasons is it such? > > See <http://www.openldap.org/faq/index.cgi?file=378> for the last > question. A description of why it's a bad idea, followed by a link > to how IBM explains they did it and got good performance anyway:-) Hmm, the FAQ entry doesn't even mention replication. Compared to syncrepl, I find MySQL's replication mechanism immature, and for data currently sitting in MySQL that I need in multiple sites, I'm currently looking at migrating it to LDAP ... BTW, what are your employer's reasons for wanting to backend on MySQL ? -- Buchan Milne ISP Systems Specialist - Monitoring/Authentication Team Leader B.Eng,RHCE(803004789010797),LPIC-2(LPI000074592) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_slang_phrases
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