Those of you who know me, know I am an old school database guy. One of the things I miss from my pre-web programming days is sitting down with an Entity-Relationship Diagramming tool and painting a picture of the database I want for my application. Since moving to MySQL as my primary database, I’ve tried out several ERDs. I’ve loved at least one, hated most others for either lack of features or price tag – or both – or been generally just unimpressed.

Today, I want to talk about how to delete a document from CouchDB. In order to do that, we have to use the HTTP DELETE operation (how convenient).

Backup2Mail is mini PHP application that creates regular backups of your MySQL database and sends it to configurable e-mail address. The whole process is scheduled with a help of Cron, a Unix program that runs programs at scheduled times.

This is simple tip to run many SQL script in MySQL sequentially

In order to retrieve a document from CouchDB, we make use of the HTTP GET operation (duh). Using the GET method for retrieving a document takes the following general form...

PostgreSQL 8.4 arrives on the scene with almost 300 new features in tow. Version 8.4's arrival follows a new development process for the open-source database.