innodb and blobs
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Are you planning on storing blobs in Innodb tables? If yes, think again. According to the manual , InnoDB stores the first 768 bytes of a VARBINARY, VARCHAR, BLOB, or ...9 Topics from September, 2008
mysql bugs
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If you are a heavy user of MySQL, I think you will appreciate this list of saved bug searches . For example, check out "p1_bugs_in_5.1" or ...
Mon Sep 29
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In the morning I had to visit to the VFS office in Bangalore. The place has very strict security. I was carrying my laptop and the security person at the gate did not ...
Sun Sep 28 2008
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I spent the first half of my day working on some emacs customiation. I am writing a major mode for blogging and it is a good learning experience. In the evening I watched 2 ...
Trivia Time
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An interesting bit of trivia. Ever wonder why the audio capacity of a standard compact disk is 74 minutes? Thank Beethoven - and Norio Ohga. In the early 1980's, Sony was ...
correlation
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Seen in one of our internal mailing list > Hypothesis: There's a correlation between not sucking at one's job and being professional, observant, considerate and ...
precise explanation of Seconds_Behind_Master value
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Thanks to Artem Russakovskii for this nice explanation of what Seconds_Behind_Master means In order to see if a slave is lagging, execute the 'show slave status' command ...
filtering planetmysql
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If you follow planetmysql, you know that it is a torrent of useful information. However, it is like drinking from the firehose. To make it easier to follow planetmysql, I ...
better ycombinator news with y! pipes
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I have created a y! pipe to read ycombinator news. This pipe filters outs posts which have words like "Ask (HN|YC|PG)", links to techcrunch.com and other noise ...