[Asterisk-Users] Where did USE_MYSQL_FRINDS go ? What to use ?

[Brian West]

> > Because people have this misconception that ODBC is slow.
> 
> It is not a misconception. It just depends on the application. For a
> home/small/xyz biz ODBC works fine I guess. The loss in speed is pretty
> negligible. But I would not want to use ODBC in a large carrier
> environment. It's slower, another layer with potential bugs etc. Doesn't
> dance with the KISS principle. At a very large US carrier I was involved
> in some ODBC tests for their billing system and it went up in flames. If
> there are ITSP's, VoIP carriers or even large incumbents using ODBC I'd
> love to hear which application and which ODBC they are using.

I don't see how in the world it could go up in flames unless it was pure
crap.  I had up to 5000 queries(selects) per second on a 1ghz box when I did
my testing.  No MySQL code will EVER go into asterisk CVS that's the bottom
line due to license issues.  That's part of the reason I wrote cdr_odbc.c to
get around that stupid license issue.

bkw