Originally Posted by TheAnimus 
Whats the app/platform your trying too connect from?
also remeber that mysql is an utter waste of space of a server, and like clamidia is spreading vastly un-controlled and too far with the 'less aware' generations. It also suddenly becomes insainly expensive when you get into really big DB teritory. Its dog slow, and barely has any features. I can't stand it. There are so many better FREE and free to use packages on the market. Why the hell use it?
It just fails on all grounds.
That is utter clap.. O'Reilly media, Ticketmaster, Redhat, Forrester Research, Google, etc, all have really tiny databases I'm sure. And few sites are faster than Google, too.