Are there SQL statements that return table names and field names for given table names in MySQL Server (5.0.22)? [more inside]
posted on Jul 7, 2008 - 8 answers

What CMS would you recommend for my podcast company? [more inside]
posted on Jul 1, 2008 - 11 answers

Can I combine and sort MySQL search results? [more inside]
posted on Jun 30, 2008 - 4 answers

I'm having some trouble recreating a Drupal site on my local machine for testing/sandbox purposes. The mysql databases are the biggest stumbling block at the moment - very basic, beginner advice is probably needed. [more inside]
posted on Jun 27, 2008 - 7 answers

Need recommendations for tools (e.g. Crystal Reports) to build reports from a MySQL database. Should be easy enough for a non-programmer to use. What are the pro's and con's of the tool(s)?
posted on Jun 5, 2008 - 3 answers

Halp! I need a new host for a wiki. My RPG has a wiki, because we're wordy and five years old and ... well, we're dorks. Our current host is not so good for us anymore for reasons of database size. [more inside]
posted on May 23, 2008 - 8 answers

What's the hive mind's opinion on MySQL vs PostgreSQL? [more inside]
posted on May 22, 2008 - 24 answers

I've had what I think is a decent idea for a website. Rather than asking someone to "punch it up" in their "spare time" I'd like to learn to do it myself. I know a bit about html and took a turbo pascal class 11 years ago. Since then it's been all humanities, social science, and law. What do I need to learn and what, in your experience, are the best books/web sites to learn from? [more inside]
posted on May 22, 2008 - 8 answers

After working in a mostly LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) environment the last few years, I need to make a quick switch to WISA (Windows, IIS, MS SQL, ASP). [more inside]
posted on May 18, 2008 - 6 answers

Suggest an offline booking system, no wait... Suggest a one-click WAMP solution, no wait... Flash and flat files mebbe? [more inside]
posted on May 17, 2008 - 1 answers

MySQL experts: How to get the optimal performance from a database server with a quad core processor? [more inside]
posted on May 11, 2008 - 14 answers

Is there any way to restore Wordpress MySQL tables from the Unix directories? I don't have a database backup. If a restore of the tables is impossible, can I at least recover the text of my blog entries? [more inside]
posted on May 9, 2008 - 6 answers

Which version of PHP should I start to learn, and how? I know HTML and CSS, and intend to build with Drupal (or similar) and its many extensions. [more inside]
posted on May 4, 2008 - 12 answers

MySQL sorting issue. When I have "first name" and "last name" columns, and I'm sorting primarily by "last name." Some entries have only a "first name," and rather than have those end up at either the start or end of the sort, I'd like it to pretend the "first name" IS the "last name" and sort accordingly. Is there a way to do this with the SQL SELECT statement or should I just edit the data? [more inside]
posted on May 2, 2008 - 8 answers

Moving an Excel spreadsheet schedule into MySQL/PHP [more inside]
posted on Apr 28, 2008 - 4 answers

I'm trying to run a MySQL query that returns rows in order by a value stored in a string (but it will also include the non-matching strings). This is not as easy as I would hope. Code inside! [more inside]
posted on Apr 9, 2008 - 15 answers

How do I setup 2 MySql databases with failover? [more inside]
posted on Apr 4, 2008 - 5 answers

What's the best way to keep data one way synchronized between an internal Mircosoft SQL Server database and a web facing mySQL database? [more inside]
posted on Apr 3, 2008 - 9 answers

What is the easiest (and free) method of exporting a MySQL database and getting it (intact) into Access ? [more inside]
posted on Apr 3, 2008 - 3 answers

MySQL question: Given a table with a datetime column and several additional columns which may or may not be null, is there an easy way to select the most recent previous non-null value of each column given a specific date? [more inside]
posted on Mar 13, 2008 - 10 answers

What is the best way to work databases like we does with version control (Subversion or CVS) for the source files? I was researching but probably I'm not using the right words or there's some special way to work.
posted on Mar 12, 2008 - 19 answers

Help me price out a server. I have a 10GB dataset from a company that I want to run SQL queries against. Right now on my MacBook they're taking ~12 hours to complete. Faster hardware is definitely needed! [more inside]
posted on Mar 12, 2008 - 17 answers

MYSQL newbie needs some help with a crazy query! (Joins, foreign keys, and bears "oh my!") [more inside]
posted on Feb 25, 2008 - 4 answers

How can I put a login box on every page of my website? [more inside]
posted on Feb 25, 2008 - 5 answers

SQL Filter: What query can I use to count the number of times a word appears in a text field? [more inside]
posted on Feb 21, 2008 - 6 answers

I need to code a form to gather contact information from visitors to my website, and I'm looking for alternatives to mySQL. [more inside]
posted on Feb 18, 2008 - 10 answers

Network admin / geek question: I'm in the process of building a small cluster of servers for my quickly growing wallpaper website, but I've never charted those waters before. I found a nice article on TorrentFreak about Mininova's server setup, and found it quite intriguing. My question is, are there any other big-ish sites like Mininova that are open about their hardware infrastructure? Googling around yielded few results. I'd be interested to see the setup for a site like Digg, MeFi, or Flickr. Thanks in advance. [more inside]
posted on Feb 16, 2008 - 5 answers

How does Facebook handle or simplify the presumably complicated DB queries involved so that me loading my page doesn't bring it to its knees? [more inside]
posted on Feb 4, 2008 - 27 answers

I have a few mysql tables that keep repeatedly getting corrupted - help! [more inside]
posted on Jan 25, 2008 - 12 answers

URLs with ampersands (&) screwing up my website database calls. [more inside]
posted on Jan 23, 2008 - 7 answers

Is there a simple way to convert an XML feed into a MYSQL database? [more inside]
posted on Jan 21, 2008 - 6 answers

How do you use a single authentication system for different kind of servers, systems, and workstations? [more inside]
posted on Jan 11, 2008 - 6 answers

How do I query data from one MySQL table, but I also need to get a single piece of data from a second table too? Should I be doing a JOIN, or a separate query? [more inside]
posted on Jan 7, 2008 - 9 answers

WorpressFilter Blog gone blank, Admin section is fine - help ! [more inside]
posted on Jan 6, 2008 - 8 answers

MediaWiki install: Apache, MySQL, & PHP already on my machine? [more inside]
posted on Jan 4, 2008 - 5 answers

Hi, I would like some recommendations for (preferably open source or inexpensive) web based software that I can implement for my church. Everyone takes turns bringing refreshments, playing songs, etc... and there are waaaaay too many "Who can do it on Sunday the 16th? on Sunday the 26th?" e-mails going around and it gets very confusing to keep track. [more inside]
posted on Dec 12, 2007 - 10 answers

I've been trying to get a 600 record Excel database into MySQL, and failed at every turn. There must be a way! [more inside]
posted on Dec 5, 2007 - 14 answers

Been banging my head against the wall on this the whole day. I need a way to select & sort data from a single MySQL table, but it's a little bit more complicated that it seems. [more inside]
posted on Nov 23, 2007 - 14 answers

MySQL monster query is timing out. Anything I can do about it? (Long question, possible a cure for insomnia.) [more inside]
posted on Nov 19, 2007 - 16 answers

Sum of data for all months, including months with no rows, in MySQL? [more inside]
posted on Nov 15, 2007 - 7 answers

I'm determined to do this in one query. I sure I can, I KNOW you can. Writing a tooltip retrieval system for a site with multiple versions of the same module. I want to supply a generic tip for each version level that can be overridden for a specific module. Diagrams = word x 10^3 [more inside]
posted on Nov 12, 2007 - 9 answers

How do I dump a heavy-loaded 800MB MySQL table without affecting anything? I have a MySQL database serving data for a business-critical popular website. I need to grab the data from one of the tables, but cannot affect the website's performance in any way. I don't mind if it takes days to do it, as long as it affects absolutely nothing.
posted on Nov 9, 2007 - 17 answers

Where can I have a huge MySQL database hosted? My current host only allows databases of up to 100Mb in size, but I have one of just over 1Gb - anyone know a web host that will allow such a thing? (I'm in the UK if that matters.) Cheaply, of course!
posted on Nov 2, 2007 - 5 answers

I'm after a PHP+MySQL app along the lines of Dell's Idea Storm site. [more inside]
posted on Oct 26, 2007 - 4 answers

I have an idea for yet another hairbrained social networking website (which paradoxically might hit it big :-) ). I've coded most of it up on a linux server using apache, php, mysql at softlayer.com. The hostname is registered at godaddy (which I can change if desirable). What's the minimum I need to do the following (I'd rather work on the website application logic and learn as little as possible about mail server administration for now): [more inside]
posted on Oct 23, 2007 - 8 answers

I've got the skills and knowledge, mostly, but I'd like to get a better workflow with PHP/MySQL development. [more inside]
posted on Oct 11, 2007 - 15 answers

How do I pass this password in the correct form to MySQL? [more inside]
posted on Sep 29, 2007 - 12 answers

Career-wise, is it a smart move to take a mysql position after building up ten years of Oracle experience? [more inside]
posted on Sep 18, 2007 - 6 answers

WordPressFilter: Can I do something like this site with WordPress? [more inside]
posted on Sep 16, 2007 - 8 answers

Without access to PHP, MySQL, or any other fancy server-side stuff I still need to have dynamic pages. What are my options? [more inside]
posted on Sep 12, 2007 - 11 answers