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Why Vista won't suck

Well, I'm not completely convinced. [...]

Three Great (and Free!) Lesser-Known Windows Programs

This article includes a nifty sounding program called nLite, which creates a customized Windows XP installation CD that includes service packs and w [...]

Windows XP and Vista b5270 Side-by-Side

Nice overview of Windows Vista at Bent User. [...]

A Naive User's Guide to Running Windows More Securely

Even if you think you're a fairly competent Windows user, there's still plenty of useful stuff to read here. [...]

Ubuntu

Ubuntu is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with both community and professional support. It is developed by a large communi [...]

Free Oracle Database

If you can host it, this free Oracle database can be implemented with PHP. Try it instead of MySQL. Limited to 4Gb of data. [...]

Storing IP addresses in MySQL

use the MySQL functions INET_ATON and INET_NTOA. [...]

vanilla

free forum for download. [...]

Vista

The next version of the Windows Operating System will be called Vista. [...]

fedora core 4

now available [...]

9 habits

of highly effective DBAs. [...]

MySQL backups

Useful tutorial on the best way to make backups of your MySQL databases: MySQL backups. [...]

XML MySQL dump

When you want to make backups of your MySQL db's you can use mysqldump. Additionally you can dump it as well-formed XML, which could be handy! [...]

sql for changing a single term

I'm no expert when it comes to sql, so this handy little snippet I recently used to add paragraph tags to my blockquotes in order to validate my lowe [...]

SQL: Limit Rows Returned

For plain SQL queries (i.e. SELECT col1, col2, col3 FROM table), it is possible to use the TOP keyword. By adding "TOP {n}" (where n is an integer va [...]

Multi Select Limit

How to limit the number of items that a user could select in a mulit-select box ... Web Tricks. [...]

MySQL-PHP Restriction Fears Unwarranted

Open-source database vendor MySQL recently initiated some restrictions on the bundling of MySQL libraries with the PHP scripting language ... read t [...]

MySQL shortcuts

Learn some shortcuts when designing your MySQL databases. Article from Database Journal. [...]

UPDATE: MySQL Launches Admin Tool

MySQL teams up with JBoss and ZendThe goal is to give DBAs a way to configure servers, monitor database activity and perform backup and restore tasks [...]

Repairing Database Corruption in MySQL

MySQL has some easy-to-use tools that can easily repair most cases of table corruption, and this article introduces you to these. [...]

HEAP tables in MySQL

We all know accessing data in RAM is a lot quicker than accessing data on disk. So, with this in mind, wouldn't it make sense for MySQL to store as [...]

Referential Integrity in MySQL

Ian Gilfillan briefly explains the concepts of referential integrity, and delves into how MySQL enforces those concepts with its definition of foreig [...]

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