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MySQL is a relational database that backs many internet websites and enterprise applications. Like all enterprise software, it has a whole complement of features which are well documented, such as data types, storage engines, transactional behaviors and so forth. It also has a set of processes, many of which involve how software operates on Linux …
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Root Cause Analysis is the means to identify the ultimate source and cause of an outage. When an outage occurs that causes serious downtime of a website, typically organizations are in crisis mode. Urgency of resolution sometimes pushes aside due process, change management and general caution. Root Cause Analysis attempts to as much as possible …
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Backups are obviously an important part of any managed infrastructure deployment. Computing systems are inherently fallible, through operator error or hardware failure. Existing systems must be backed up, from configurations, software and media files, to the backend data store. In a managed hosting environment or cloud hosting environment, it is convenient to use various filesystem …
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Database replication is a service for shipping changes to your database, off to a copy housed on another server, potentially even in another data center. Each change to the records of information in your database or groups of them are organized into transactions. These each get unique identifiers or change numbers. Those groupings of changes …
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Sean Hull discusses on Quora – What is Behavior Driven Development?
In the old days… You would have a closet in your startup company with a rack of computers. Provisioning involved: Deciding on your architectural direction, what, where & how Ordering the new hardware Waiting weeks for the packages to arrive Setup the hardware, wire things together, power up Discover some component is missing, or failed …
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Loading data into a database whether it is Oracle or MySQL, involves passing a lot of hurdles. If you’re working with CSV files, special characters may cause trouble, end of line characeters, very long lines, and so forth. Once your data load is complete, spot checks involve basic checks to determine that all went well. …
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A relational database is the warehouse of your data. Your crown jewels. It’s your excel spreadsheet or filing cabinet writ large. You use them everyday and may not know it. Your smartphone stores it’s contacts in a relational database, most likely sqlite – the ever present but ever invisible embedded platform. Your online bank at …
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During the software development process, whether you’re cutting edge Agile developers, or traditional waterfall method folks, your code changes are periodically accompanied by database changes. For instance tables have particular rows and columns. When developers add new columns (ie fields on an index card), or create new tables, relationships, indexes or other database objects, all …
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BCP or BCRP if you want to also include “resiliency” in the acronym, basically outlines planning for the worst. In the old days you had a filing cabinet with documents, for example there might be a central government office which houses birth certificates or titles and deeds. Perhaps a copy of documents is regularly created, …
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