Using VIEWS in MySQL

So one of the things I finally started to figure out, at least sorta, is the concept of VIEWS. I had known about them for some time but never really understood why to use them. I had thought they provided worse performance than by not using them and simply using …

MySQL Conference 2007, Day 4

I’ll begin with a comic my old boss home-fry Ryan sent me. Cute Shawn :) So the last day at the MySQL Conference was pretty fun. I learned a few neat tidbits about PHP6, although I was really more interested in ways to make PHP5 stateful. In other words, have …