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Backing up your MySQL databases

MYSQLDUMP is a utility for outputting database contents into text files. This is nice, but has many configuration options. One, often missed detail is the specific permissions required to accomplish the job. I made a note on the mysql manual (bottom of page) to illustrate what I consider to be a best practice for [...]

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How to - LIKE - use prepared statements

I was going to do the whole Valley Girl theme for this post, but decided that was lame. So while converting an internal application query into a user-input web query when I stumbled across a problem. My prepared statement was not throwing an error and not giving me results. It took me a while [...]

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