"Sie organisieren das hobbymäßig?" erkundigt sich ungläubig die Organisation einer im gleichen Gebäude stattfindenden Konferenz. Nicht ohne Stolz und völlig zu Recht macht die Frage die Runde. Die Runde besteht aus 220 Teilnehmern der PHP Unconference 2009 (Hamburg, 12.-13.09) deren … Continue reading →

How large can a column of the data type POINT be: 10 bytes, 100 bytes, 1k, 10k? No… think Enterprise! PHP will allocate 4GB of RAM if you use the Prepared Statements of ext/mysqli and the MySQL Client Library (AKA … Continue reading →

The first production version of the MySQL Connector for OpenOffice.org has been released. You can download it from http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/mysql_connector. The driver is implemented as an OpenOffice.org extension and thus it is very easy to install. The driver can be used … Continue reading →

Andrey mentioned it long ago: MySQL Connector/C++ 1.1.0 makes use of some Boost components. The change impacts those who compile the MySQL driver for C++ from source. You need to have Boost 1.34.0 or newer installed on your build system. … Continue reading →

From 1.1.0 on, Connector/C++ can optionally use run-time dynamic linking to access the MySQL Client Library (AKA libmysql). If you make use of this new feature, it will not only change the application binary interface (ABI) but also has some … Continue reading →