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When MySQL Bugs Bite

by Aaron Brazell on December 20, 2006 · 3 comments

Being the Technology Architect for a startup is a dangerous job. Deadly dangerous. It involves sleepless nights and extra-careful sensory skills to navigate the landmines laid in marriages. Often times, instead of watching Lost or re-runs of The Wire with my wife, I find myself solving technical problems and ensuring the technical side of enterprise [...]

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We’re Back

by Aaron Brazell on March 3, 2006 · 9 comments

Finally… back online and on the right server. Welcome back to the chaos that lives here. :)
One thing I discovered, and maybe some MySQL-savvy person can offer insight on this, is that the mysqldump command does not necessarily work the way it is supposed to. Maybe that’s actually not a mysqldump issue and more a [...]

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An interesting conversation has erupted in the comments section of “Should ProBlogger Add Forums?” entry. The original topic had to do with Darren floating the idea of creating a forum to parallel his ProBlogger blog. Alot of folks chimed in on his poll.
More noticeable is a little “disagreement” that I have with Rachel [...]

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MySQL 5 has reached beta status and apparently is filing all the backlogged demands in one foul swoop. Stored Procedures and triggers are some of the key Enterprise level features available with the Oracles and SQL Servers of the world but so far lacking in all current versions of MySQL.
MySQL is billing MySQL 5 as [...]

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Note to self: Must do this.

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addthis_title = ‘Power+Logging+with+MySQL+and+Apache’;
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In a long awaited press release, MySQL has finally released MySQL 4.1 as it’s recommended version. Finally, there are enterprise-level features available in the popular database platform:

Subqueries and Derived Tables
GUI and Configuration Wizards for Windows and Linux providing an easier mechanism for optimization.
OpenSSL encrypted transport protocols.
Smaller memory footprint.
New GIS spatial field type for geographic [...]

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