MySQL, the database with which I have dealt the most in the past few years, has just released MySQL 5. Good for them. Happy to hear it.
Now, if you’re like me, you have just barely installed MySQL 4.1 to try it out, and have yet to scratch the surface on the new functionality […]

Companies are starting to go crazy over RSS, and probably for the wrong reason. Yeah, it’s nice that it delivers news from lots of different sites to your web or email browser. Yeah, maybe we’ll be able to have some nice abilities to search this news.
I say, “So what! Who cares! […]

I always find it interesting when I take someone else’s web development project, examine the queries being used, add a few good indices, and improve a script from 30 to 40 minutes to 5 to 10 seconds.
That has happened more than once, by the way.
I don’t think people realize how quick databases can be, if […]