Lets paint the picture: Scenario part 1 : Migrating a couple thousand stored procedures from database technology X to mysql Scenario part 2 : Legacy system where the people who wrote it left a long time ago Scenario part 3 : Developers sure can get real creative and invent all kinds of ways to get [...]
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MySQL stored procedure debugging, can I sue for going insane?
Posted: 23rd August 2010 by Darren Cassar in Advanced, MySQLTags: debugging, mysq, procs, stored procedure, stored procs
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Securich – The MySQL Security Package step by step run through
Posted: 19th June 2009 by Darren Cassar in Advanced, MySQL, UncategorizedTags: MySQL, mysql roles, mysql security, password, password history, privileges, roles, security
I would like to start off by excusing myself for having had a broken link on http://www.securich.com/downloads.html when I published the latest blog post about Securich.
The tool is downloadable from there and anyone can use it for free in accordance to GPLv2.
I wanted to throw out tutorial about how to install it and use it (Note this tutorial is for version securich version 0.1.2):
Security – Roles and Password Expiry on MySQL using SECURICH
Posted: 11th June 2009 by Darren Cassar in Advanced, Intermediate, MySQLTags: groups, MySQL, password expiry, password history, roles, securich, security
Lately there has been quite some talk about security on MySQL, and I’ve decided to GPL a package I wrote, implmenting Roles on MySQL.
This technology has been available on other databases for quite some time, but hasn’t quite yet made it to MySQL’s feature list and apart from this tool, the only solution I know of is google’s patches for MySQL 5.0.