Archive for October, 2005
Fun With Triggers
I was trying to come up something funny|cute that used new features in 5.0 and settled on a quick little bit with a coffee pot and mug: create table pot (coffee int unsigned); create table mug (coffee int unsigned); delimiter | create trigger pour_cup after delete on pot for each row begin insert into mug [...]
MySQL, Innodb, and Oracle — Looking through the FUD
There has been a lot of buzz going around lately about Oracle’s recent aquizition of Innobase Oy the company that produces the innodb storage engine for MySQL. Most of this buzz is centered around MySQL being doomed or at least being set back to the years before it was considered enterprise quality. None of this [...]
Always Eat Your Yogurt
When traveling to a foreign country always consume the dairy products served. These items contain the bacteria necessary for your body to properly handle the bacteria local to that country.
Versioned Manual
For years I and several others have been asking for the MySQL online manual to be versioned. It’s very annoying to users to see something in the manual and not have it work in their instance of MySQL. I’ve mentioned this a few times and now it looks like it’s come true. The manual page [...]
ROFL Copter
This is one of my favorite images to send to people that say LOL or ROFL in chat rooms. Love it.
Bash Brace Expansion.
Most people who have had someone look over their shoulder while typing at a prompt have been hit with the question, “How did you do that?” Followed by a quick example of whatever nifty command they just executed. Of all the little bash tricks I know the one that I have explained to more people [...]
Naked Celebrity Photoshoot.
All week there have been posters around the Yahoo campus about a naked celebrity photoshoot. Jeremy captured the action. [update: 10/7/2005 - photoshoot is one word. Jeremy sent me a link to the poster ]