Loading ...So this morning I was welcomed to work with a “Have you heard the news?” … Good lord I just woke up for God sakes. Just like the storm back in April 2008 when Sun bought MySQL, another (possibly the perfect storm) happened in April 2009 when Oracle bought Sun, today the latter storm took [...]
Warning, the following is quite ugly, but does the job :) A while back I needed to create an archive slave database from a half a terabyte myisam master and had space restrictions. I could not dump the db, load it, then drop keys (archive doesn’t support keys apart from a primary key on one [...]
Sometimes we have some special need for a stored procedure to call another to do something. That is fine, but what if the second stored proc failed for some reason? Maybe you want to halt the first stored procedure (the caller) and not proceed with the work until the problem is verified and resolved. So [...]
Around these days last year I presented `securich` for the first time. It was at froscon 2009, barely knowing anybody, spending my 27th birthday in a hostel in Germany fixing some bugs before the actual presentation on a 10 inch netbook (my mac had some problems at the time but thats another story :)). I [...]