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Testing data serves multiple purposes. Boundary conditions (long fields, unicode etc) is important for invalidation testing. (i.e. Testing to break your code and functionality) Tes…

I find when I commute that writing an email TODO list of the work I will be doing today, or a TODO list of things I want to do next on my side project. Generally it gives me lots o…

My 2 cents. 1. OS portability (i.e. a large portion of the Internet world is not MS) 2. Open source community (You can talk to a developer of a library. Can you do that with C#) 3.…

I applaud your initiative. I am doing something similar, but textual. I also believe that http://www.wolframalpha.com/ does graphing of data.

This is also multiplied by the character encoding, so when you have a table with 10 columns at VARCHAR(255) because your too lazy to define them, and they are all UTF8, so that's 2…

As a database architect expert, I generally average a 25-30% reduction in the Disk Footprint of the database, sometimes with zero impact for application changes. I use a very simpl…

A video of the presentation can be found at http://technocation.org/node/533/play

axod, you can download these slides and other MySQL related presentations directly from http://ronaldbradford.com/presentations/