Generating data with dbmonster
In my last post I included some sample data which was useful for playing around with queries (once I published it, I realized it made my post look like some form of keyword stuffing, fortunately I don’t use adsense on my site so I hope I’m free of any suspicion ). That sample data was [...]
Using MySQL sandbox for testing
MySQL Sandbox is a great tool for quickly deploying test MySQL instances, particularly if your daily work involves diagnosing problems across multiple MySQL versions. Once you’ve downloaded it, it needs no installation. Just have a few MySQL binary releases at hand, and begin creating sandboxes in just a few seconds: ./make_sandbox mysql-5.0.77-linux-x86_64-glibc23.tar.gz or ./make_sandbox mysql-5.1.32-linux-x86_64-glibc23.tar.gz [...]