[Wylug-announce] WYLUG - Change of talk: Smylers "When MySQL Bites"

[Tom Hall]

Hi All,

Chris Street is unwell today so Smylers has agreed to bring forward
his talk from next month to this month.


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When MySQL Bites: Quirks to Watch Out For

MySQL is a very popular DBMS.  Or rather, it's very widely used, which
is not necessarily the same thing.  It has quite a few quirks, behaviour
that many people wouldn't expect and which if you aren't aware of can be
the cause of much frustration, pain, and data loss.

In the hope that more people being aware of these infelicities will
reduce the damage they can do, a collection of them is presented here,
along with tips and techniques for dealing with them.

There's also an examination of why so often the MySQL feature is
tantalizingly only available in one version higher than the one you're
running.
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For those that dont know, Smylers was a founding member of Wylug, and
after a period exiled to London returned to Leeds last year when he
persuaded his employer to
invent a position for him.  So he's now Hosting Analyst for web
hosting and domain names provider Webfusion -- a job title so vague he
pretty
much gets to make it up as he goes along.  Previously he was Head of
Perl Training at GBdirect, where he taught Perl to Yahoo!, Microsoft,
Sony, and the Nationwide building society among others, and was the
lead developer for top UK IT news website 'The Register'.