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From: bambi@Bond.edu.au (David J. Hughes)
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Subject: ANNOUNCE : mSQL 1.0.5 available
Date: 16 Feb 1995 00:47:09 GMT
Organization: Bond University, Queensland, AUSTRALIA
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Summary: Mini SQL version 1.0.5 available
Keywords: SQL database free msql
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mSQL 1.0.5 is available

The latest release of Mini SQL is now available from Bond.edu.au in
/pub/Minerva/msql.  This is probably the last release in the 1.0.x
series as it is now very stable and portable.  It is known to run
properly on over a dozen versions of UNIX including SunOS, Solaris,
HP-UX, AIX, Linux, FreeBSD-2, SCO, SVR4, NeXT, Cray Unicos, OSF/1 and
Ultrix.

mSQL-1.0.5 offers vast performance enhancements over earlier versions of
the 1.0.x code.  It offers roughly a 20% increase for general query
processing.  It also includes JOIN optimisation that reduces the
processing time for most joins by an order of magnitude or more (one
report of a join running on a Cray reduced processing time from 8
minutes to a few seconds!).


General Info
------------

Mini SQL (or mSQL) is a light weight database engine that offers a
significant subset of ANSI SQL as its query language.  It's a small, fast 
and resource friendly package that doesn't kill machines.  It doesn't
require vast amounts of memory or enhanced kernel limits to operate.  It
is quite useable on a PC class machine running BSD or Linux with as
little as 8 megs of memory.  On an entry level SPARC or similar it's very
fast.

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