http://www.devshed.com MySQL - RSS Feeds en-us Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:40:04 -0500 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:40:04 -0500 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:00:04 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/MySQL-Security-Tips/?kc=rss - Because of its immense popularity, MySQL is also a regular target for malicious users or hackers wanting to exploit your system and steal data. This type of exploit can be serious; it can include putting malicious software on your web server and using the website to host malware. To avoid lettin...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/MySQL-Security-Tips/?kc=rss Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:00:46 -0400 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/Designing-a-MySQL-Database-Tips-and-Techniques/?kc=rss - Most developers do not have a design background regarding MySQL, so when they create their database, it's inefficient, buggy and unreliable. By properly setting up the correct specifications for your MySQL database, your web application will be efficient and reliable, since it meets industry stand...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/Designing-a-MySQL-Database-Tips-and-Techniques/?kc=rss Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:00:46 -0400 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/The-Three-Most-Important-MySQL-Queries/?kc=rss - You can see dynamic websites almost everywhere on the net. Popular software packages, whether for blogging (like WordPress or Drupal) or e-commerce (such as osCommerce) are configured to be dynamic in nature. Dynamic websites rely on MySQL databases to fetch and insert data coming from and going to ...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/The-Three-Most-Important-MySQL-Queries/?kc=rss Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:00:46 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/Null-and-Empty-Strings/?kc=rss - Before I actually start, here's a little quiz. Is null equivalent to quot; quot; ? If you said yes, you definitely need to go through this article, and even if you know that quot; quot; is an empty string and not equivalent to NULL, you might want to run through the article. Let's start by talki...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/Null-and-Empty-Strings/?kc=rss Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:00:47 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/MySQL-Server-Tuning-Tips-and-Tricks/?kc=rss - You are reading the fourth and final part of this MySQL performance optimization multi-part article series. Before we begin, don't forget to check out the earlier parts. Within the first article the most important benchmarking concepts and strategies were pointed out, while the second segment presen...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/MySQL-Server-Tuning-Tips-and-Tricks/?kc=rss Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:00:46 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/MySQL-Query-Optimizations-and-Schema-Design/?kc=rss - This is the third segment of the MySQL Performance Optimization four-part article series. Before we begin, I urge you to go back and check out the earlier parts. Within the first article, the most important benchmarking concepts and strategies were pointed out. The second segment presented benchmar...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/MySQL-Query-Optimizations-and-Schema-Design/?kc=rss Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:00:45 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/MySQL-Benchmarking-Tools-and-Utilities/?kc=rss - Before we begin, it would be helpful to refresh your memory by skimming through the first part of this series, titled “MySQL Benchmarking Concepts and Strategies,” published also here on DevShed in the MySQL section. In that article we laid out the necessary benchmarking concepts, strategies, and ...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/MySQL-Benchmarking-Tools-and-Utilities/?kc=rss Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:00:46 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/MySQL-Benchmarking-Concepts-and-Strategies/?kc=rss - You are reading the first segment of this multi-part series. In this part we will first present the importance of benchmarking and then discuss a few techniques for benchmarking MySQL servers. It is important to understand the basics that lie behind benchmarking and stress testing, the distincti...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/MySQL-Benchmarking-Concepts-and-Strategies/?kc=rss Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:00:47 -0400 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/Take-Some-Load-off-MySQL-with-MemCached/?kc=rss - The Overworked Database A web page may generate dozens of queries on each page load – user credentials, session information, system notifications, new messages, latest headlines, configuration information, and content areas may be loaded on every single page and displayed to the user or acted upon...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/Take-Some-Load-off-MySQL-with-MemCached/?kc=rss Wed, 02 Jan 2008 09:00:54 -0500 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/MySQL-Table-Prefix-Changer-Tool-in-PHP/?kc=rss - In a SQL injection, a malicious user is able to execute queries against your database through form fields on your web site. In some cases, they are even able to append them as POST data directly in the address bar. This is especially a risk when you are running publicly available software package...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/MySQL-Table-Prefix-Changer-Tool-in-PHP/?kc=rss Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:00:47 -0400 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/Using-the-SIGNAL-Statement-for-Error-Handling/?kc=rss - Creating Your Own Exceptions with the SIGNAL Statement So far in this chapter, we have talked about how you can handle errors raised by MySQL as it executes SQL statements within the stored program. In addition to these system-raised exceptions, however, you will surely have to deal with errors th...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/Using-the-SIGNAL-Statement-for-Error-Handling/?kc=rss Thu, 06 Sep 2007 09:00:48 -0400 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/Error-Handling-Examples/?kc=rss - Handler Examples Here are some examples of handler declarations: If any error condition arises (other than a NOT FOUND), continue execution after setting l_error=1: DECLARE CONTINUE HANDLER FOR SQLEXCEPTIO N SET l_error=1; If any error condition arises (other than a NOT F...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/Error-Handling-Examples/?kc=rss Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:00:48 -0400 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/Error-Handling/?kc=rss - The perfect programmer, living in a perfect world, would always write programs that anticipate every possible circumstance. Those programs would either always work correctly, or fail “gracefully” by providing comprehensive diagnostic information to the support team and very readable messages to the ...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/Error-Handling/?kc=rss Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:00:47 -0400 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/Completing-a-Search-Engine-with-MySQL-and-PHP-5/?kc=rss - Introduction As you'll possibly recall, over the course of the preceding article of the series I defined a couple of basic MySQL-processing classes. These classes came in handy not only for performing different search queries against one or more selected databases, but for displaying the correspon...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/Completing-a-Search-Engine-with-MySQL-and-PHP-5/?kc=rss Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:00:50 -0400 http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/Paginating-Result-Sets-for-a-Search-Engine-Built-with-MySQL-and-PHP-5/?kc=rss - Introduction Now, after introducing the subject of this series, let me briefly recapitulate the topics that were covered in the preceding article, so you can grasp more easily the new features that I plan to add to the core structure of this MySQL-driven search application. As you'll possibly r...]]> http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/Paginating-Result-Sets-for-a-Search-Engine-Built-with-MySQL-and-PHP-5/?kc=rss