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2005-02-16 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Steve 2005-02-16 2:46:58 PM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Long established smuggling networks can get cash, major appliances, or weapons and people, into the country.

They're smuggling in refrigerators? That should make life easier for the border guards.

Posted by Jonathan 2005-02-16 5:10:14 PM|| [http://www.workaround.blogspot.com] 2005-02-16 5:10:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 ** GEEK ALERT **

I wonder what brand database software they are using?

** END GEEK ALERT **

Posted by badanov 2005-02-16 5:14:38 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2005-02-16 5:14:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 MySQL, I bet.

Free, stable, reliable, fast.

They damned well better not be using DB2. God, what an abortion.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2005-02-16 6:39:45 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-02-16 6:39:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Oracle.

Some effort toward MySQL has been seen, but Oracle (mainly on Sun, with a few on RHEL) still rules the roost for new apps, Sybase on legacy stuff, and MySQL and PostgreSQL on the Linux boxes that are starting to populate like bunnies.

Posted by OldSpook 2005-02-16 7:49:02 PM|| 2005-02-16 7:49:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 No one in their right mind would put a large dataset supporting complex queries on MySQL. It would be glacially slow.

Posted by phil_b 2005-02-16 8:25:35 PM|| 2005-02-16 8:25:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Have you tried?

Posted by Robert Crawford 2005-02-16 11:02:52 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-02-16 11:02:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Oracle.

Some effort toward MySQL has been seen, but Oracle (mainly on Sun, with a few on RHEL) still rules the roost for new apps, Sybase on legacy stuff, and MySQL and PostgreSQL on the Linux boxes that are starting to populate like bunnies.

Posted by OldSpook 2005-02-16 7:49:02 PM|| 2005-02-16 7:49:02 PM|| Front Page Top

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Posted by OldSpook 2005-02-16 7:49:02 PM|| 2005-02-16 7:49:02 PM|| Front Page Top

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