geek stuff - Summary - Entries from March 2009

geek stuff - 2 Topics from March, 2009

optmizing ORDER BY in MySQL

A few days back we were trying to optimize a sql query that was using an ORDER BY clause. When we ran an EXPLAIN on the query, we saw that the query was Using filesort ...

interesting spam

This is from a spam I got recently. It had "Viagra" spelled out using table (like an 8x8 display). Interesting ...