2013/08/08
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Modern NoSQL solutions make good, old MySQL Replication appear weak on High Availability (HA). Basically, MySQL users have three choices for MySQL Replication HA: give up on HA, believe that doubling single points of failures means HA, or go for … Continue reading
2013/01/17
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I love the new NoSQL systems: more choices! After years of RDBMS dominance there are hundrets of NoSQL systems offering a wide range of data models, data distribution strategies and interfaces. Polyglot persistence describes the market change. I am most … Continue reading
2013/01/10
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MySQL 5.6 introduces a new features that must be used with great care. A MySQL users password can be marked as expired. This way, a DBA can force a user to set or reset his password. The MySQL user must … Continue reading
2012/12/19
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It is time for christmas presents: some sharding support and cache locality optimizations are coming with PECL/mysqlnd_ms 1.5. PECL/mysqlnd_ms is a plugin for the mysqlnd library. The plugin adds replication and load balancing support to any PHP MySQL API (mysql, … Continue reading
2012/09/25
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Never trust user input! Injection is a threat . You are the new web developer, aren’t you?. Never trust user input is the first rule I had to learn as a web developer in anchient times. Injection can happen whenever … Continue reading