Continuent is probably best known for its database clustering technology for MySQL, as well as PostgreSQL, but the company has for some time had its sights set on expanding beyond open source databases and enabling horizontal database scalability.
It has just taken a major step towards delivering on both counts with the launch of Tungsten, its […]
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Continuent launches Tungsten project for database scale-out
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Collok.com Manages Your OpenWorld Schedule
A few weeks ago, I huddled with Matt and Eddie to chat about how we could do some whizzy-social-2.0 stuff for OpenWorld this year.
The outcome was a lot of “this would be cool” and “just don’t have the time”. Well, Matt made some time anyway, and he’s soft-released Collok.com to help you manage your OpenWorld […]
Reset a result source in PHP with mysql_data_seek
mysql_connect(“host”,“user”,“pass”);
mysql_select_db(“db”);
$result = mysql_query(“SELECT names FROM table;”);
$result2 = mysql_query(“SELECT names FROM table2;”);
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result,MYSQL_ASSOC)) {
mysql_data_seek($result,0);
while($row2=mysql_fetch_array($result2,MYSQL_ASSOC)) {
if($row[‘name’]==$row2[‘name’])
[…]
Asking the right questions of open source
A classic Morecambe and Wise comedy sketch from the 1970s sees Andre Previn criticizing Eric for playing all the wrong notes while attempting the Greig Piano Concerto. Morecambe responds that he is in fact “playing all the right notes. But not necessarily in the right order.”
I was reminded of the sketch this morning while reading […]
quick fix for mysql character set issues
if, after painfully specifying character set and collation for your database, all your tables, and all columns within them, you’re still experiencing discrepencies between what your database is storing (eg. strings appear correct from within phpMyAdmin) versus what your website is displaying from database query results (question marks instead of your fancy quotes), try this:
mysql_query(”SET […]
Microsoft contributes to Open Source: ADOdb mssql drivers
I read a post the other week about Microsofts first contribution to Open Source. Microsoft has provided a patch to the ADOdb layer in PHP.
PHP on IIS + SQL: Microsoft is contributing a patch to ADOdb, a popular data access layer for PHP used by many applications. The patch enables support for SQL […]