MySQL and closed-source

By drasch, on May 7th, 2008%

Apparently someone at Sun agreed with my sentiments about moving to a more closed-source model for MySQL.

While my original comments are self serving, apparently Sun believes that it will make better business sense in the long term to keep these components open-source. Hopefully this is a vote of confidence for the quality of . . . → Read More: MySQL and closed-source

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Not too happy to hear about this

By drasch, on April 16th, 2008%

Sun to begin developing features only for Enterprise server. While I’m glad Sun will continue development of MySQL, there are many things other than not having access to these advanced features. Mainly the splintering of development, the idea of paying for less-tested software, and whether it’s a trend.

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TriPUG and MySQL Talk on Memcache and PHP

By drasch, on May 3rd, 2007%

Memcache is an extension written by Danga for simple Key/Value pair caching for use with your favorite programming language. In this talk I demonstrate how to install, integrate, and leverage Memcache in PHP (using MySQL for a database). I build a sample application, demonstrate less than desirable performance and finally, return performance with a . . . → Read More: TriPUG and MySQL Talk on Memcache and PHP

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Zend Framework and PDO_MYSQL

By drasch, on February 6th, 2007%

I’ve been working with the Zend Framework a bit and in working with MySQL through PDO_MYSQL. I’ve run into a few problems trying to use parameters of queries.

I’ve narrowed the issue down to PDO itself and not the Zend Framework.

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$query = “insert into silo_test_data (record_id, fieldname, value)
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