The MySQL Prompt
Following on from my previous post about tips I have been picking up from the MySQL certification study guide I have another which I think is worth mentioning. Personally I had never noticed that the...
View ArticleSpread the word
As you may or may not know I'm a sysop over at the Quest Pipelines MySQL forum. We don't get a great deal of visitors in the MySQL forums there, due in part I guess to the fact the forums on the MySQL...
View ArticleEvent Scheduler on Mac OS X
One of the things I learnt a year ago when I first started working with MySQL stored procedures was that you really need to have the latest version of MySQL running. By the time you have identified a...
View ArticleDo you really want to comment out that code?
Yet again I have been on the MySQL forums and yet again it's given me something to write about. The question was pretty standard simply asking how you comment out code or add comments to MySQL stored...
View ArticleDebugging Stored Procedures in MySQL
I have recently seen a couple of posts on the MySQL forums with regard to debugging stored procedures in MySQL. The people asking have been Oracle developers who like most people developing stored...
View ArticleCalling it a day.
I have been blogging since last June (is it really that long) and www.mysqldevelopment.com has been going for over a year now. But as the frequency of posts on this blog and updates on the site will...
View ArticleMySQLDevelopment Update.
I have had a great response from people with regards to the (possible) closure of MySQLDevelopment. It seems people want to keep the site alive in one format or another and I have had a lot of...
View ArticleMySQLDevelopment.com gets a stay of execution
When I posted a few weeks ago about the end of MySQLDevelopment.com it seems the timing was a little off. I was planning to close things down on 30th April simply as it was the end of a month, what I...
View ArticleFun with dates
In response to Kai Voigt's post about unxepected results from dates here is what is going wrong. To add and subtract time using + and - you need to use the INTERVAL keyword either before or after the +...
View ArticleOpportunities
It's been well mentioned by myself that of late the time I have been able to devote to MySQL has become restricted. Part of this was due to me taking an exciting new job just before Christmas. When I...
View ArticleMySQL Stored Procedure Programming (The Book) - 3
I have mentioned a couple of times about the upcoming release of MySQL Stored Procedure Programming by Guy Harrison and Steven Feuerstein. It was scheduled for release in March but the release date...
View ArticleMySQLDevelopment.com Update
I recently I announced that MySQLDevelopment was going to close, at the time I wasn't sure what would be happening to the content but I hoped that it would be able to live on in some form. I had a...
View ArticleMySQLDevelopment.com
MySQLDevelopment.com is no more, All requests to the site will now be served from http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Category:MySQLDevelopment.Thanks for all those who visited the site over the last year.
View ArticleAdventures in PHP and Oracle
Recently we have been asked to develop some of our future sites in PHP. Traditionally we have worked in an in house language which fits in nicely with HTML but there is pressure from our clients to use...
View ArticleRegular Expressions in Oracle 10g - Part 1
Before my current role I generally worked in a windows environment, I would occasionally copy a file or log on to a Unix box to does something only when absolutely necessary. But at my last job and...
View ArticleSpotlight on MySQL
One of my "part time" roles is a sysop on the Quest MySQL Pipelines, as I have mentioned on here before we don't get many posts unfortunately and I can only assume that's because MySQL have such great...
View ArticleMysqldevelopment.com emails are no more.
When I transferred the content of mysqldevelopment.com over to the MySQL Forge site I always intended to continue updating this blog. Unfortunately due to work commitments I simply haven't had the time...
View ArticleMySQL on a PS3
I work in IT for 2 reasons, firstly it pays well but secondly and most importantly it's fun. When I look back on jobs I had before I started working in IT, while it was never a problem getting up in...
View ArticleSuch a long time....
Wow, is it really that long since I updated this thing. I can't believe that it's been close to 3 years since I updated it regularly, but I suppose it is as I have been in my current job for that long...
View ArticleAdventures in Web Performance
I mentioned in my previous post that recently I have been working with web performance. Often when working with clients they want fast performing web sites but then proceed to give you all manner of...
View ArticleI am a Dummy
Way back when I started this blog just under 4 years ago I wrote a post called 'An Oracle Developers Journey', in the early days the blog focused on the transition from Oracle to MySQL. The irony was...
View ArticleGenerating "Random" Data using rand() and sub selects
I'm developing a demonstration site for new system we are about to unleash on the world, so far it's going great but one of the worst things about demo sites is the lack of real world data at hand. I...
View ArticleIt's as if I never went away
It's been getting on for 3 years since I updated this blog and more like 6 since I regularly added to it. It's actually pretty amazing that in that time it's still prettying relevant and useful, that's...
View ArticleComments Gone
Well seeing as I'm going to open this blog up again I figured I better come in and have a little clean up. Checking the comments it was obvious that most of the 1000+ comments were some form of spam so...
View ArticleSQL Database Performance Tuning
It's not often I get asked to share stuff and even less that I feel compelled to, but this is well worth reading. http://www.toptal.com/sql/sql-database-tuning-for-developers
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