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MySQL best practise

14th July 2002

O’Reilly have a new article up entitled Ten MySQL Best Practises. Jeremy Zawodny has a few problems with the article, and Tony Bowden throws in some comments as well. There’s plenty of useful information distributed between the three viewpoints.

Posted 14th July 2002 at 7 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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