"Michael Austin" <maustin@firstdbasource.com> wrote in message
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> Brian Cryer wrote:
>> "Captain Paralytic" <paul_lautman@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:04e3cb42-860b-449d-ad9e-5da39083e72d@m73g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
>>> On 13 May, 11:57, "Brian Cryer" <www.cryer.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> Moving to a non-Vista machine is not an ideal option
>>> I guess it depends where you're coming from. IMO, using Vista is
>>> always far from ideal.
>>
>> That used to be my impression (and to be honest still mostly is) ... but
>> if you have a "super dooper" machine then Vista just about matches xp for
>> performance, and Vista does have some nice features. Since my new desktop
>> is a quad core beast with as much RAM as it will take and a respectiable
>> graphics card, Vista does work quite well. However we have machines in
>> the office that would fly if they were running XP but only crawl because
>> they run Vista. That said, even with a "super dooper" machine there are
>> still compatibility issues with some software not running which worked
>> fine on XP.
>>
>> So in most cases I'd agree with you.
>>
>> On this particular MySQL issue, I still don't know whether its a Vista
>> issue or an issue with my installation ...
>>
>
>
> do yourself a favor and re-image one of the "older" boxes with some
> version of Linux - which generally includes mysql - move your db to this
> host and you will see database speeds that cannot be matched on any
> windows box... This would be an n-tier architecture and because of the new
> db speed you should not notice any performance degradation.

Speed isn't an issue. Nor is migrating to Linux an option, since I have no
wish to learn to support another operating system. MySQL runs quite happily
on my Vista pc, its only MySQL Query Browser that I'm having issues with -
any suggestions relevant to my original post would be welcome.
--
Brian.