On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 17:42 -0600, jheid wrote: > I'm using the Linux mysqld now and copy the data files to the Windows > version. They seems to be binary compatible, but I don't think I can > rely on this. > Why on earth not? MySQL, like all RDBMS, works perfectly well when the client programs are on another OS and/or hardware. In this respect its just like any other TCP-capable server, e.g Internet web and mail servers. If any of these it can't or won't work with clients running on a wide variety of hardware and software platforms it won't be used by many projects. That will get it a bad reputation and nobody will use it. MySQL may have its weak points but this isn't one of them. Martin
