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Developers often write open source software in public, but what about developers who write about open source software? Do they build tools? How do your favorite books come about?
October 23,
2009
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Paul DuBois has selected sample recipes from the hundreds you'll find in his book, MySQL Cookbook. In this second article in a three-part series showcasing these recipes, find out how to manage simultaneous AUTO_INCREMENT values, and how to use AUTO_INCREMENT values and related tables.
October 22,
2009
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Storing text in your database is handy, but searching can be a pain. MySQL's FULLTEXT search can save your sanity. Joe Stump demonstrates how it works and gives several ideas on how to use it in your own applications.
October 14,
2009
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This week John Paul Ashenfelter discusses the most dangerous of the core SQL statements: DELETE. Proceed with caution.
October 6,
2009
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Oracle, DB2, and SQL Server all have analytic functions, ways to preserve the details in a record when you use an aggregate. MySQL lacks them, but you can emulate them if you want. Stephane Faroult shows some of the ways to go about this in the first of a two part series.
October 2,
2009
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Where are the all-in-one PHP frameworks that make building well-factored and maintainable applications as easy as building simple sites?
September 25,
2009
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Find yourself wishing PHP had an easy way to manage additional modules? Joao Prado Maia explains PEAR and shows how it fills this role.
September 23,
2009
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Eww, statistics. Right? Not necessarily--for example, calculating the entropy of your web statistics can help you analyze trends and correlations.
September 23,
2009
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Almost every serious web application uses a relational database to store its data. At some point, you'll have to learn how to use them. John Coggeshall explains the basics of relational databases with MySQL.
September 21,
2009
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Oracle, DB2, and SQL Server all have analytic functions--ways to preserve the details in a record when you use an aggregate. MySQL lacks them, but you can emulate them if you want. Stephane Faroult continues his look at how to do this in the second part of his series.
September 7,
2009
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