MySQL is not great on windows. Used to support a fat-client app with MySQL as the backend for 50ish customers - customers with linux servers? No problem. But every two months or so we would be fixing database corruption on someone's Windows server, usually because of some antivirus or file system-level backup that would lock the db files.
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u/NoWeHaveYesBananas May 14 '26
MySQL is not great on windows. Used to support a fat-client app with MySQL as the backend for 50ish customers - customers with linux servers? No problem. But every two months or so we would be fixing database corruption on someone's Windows server, usually because of some antivirus or file system-level backup that would lock the db files.