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This is all about db4free.net and the database systems that it offers. The main focus are practical examples of the new features of MySQL 5 and 6 that should show you how to use them for your advantage in your daily life ;-).

Monday, July 19, 2010

db4free.net blog has moved and what's new

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It was about time to switch to something new. I finally have my new blog launched at www.mpopp.net which is something that I had planned fo...
Monday, March 22, 2010

db4free.net outage

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Here is in brief what's going on. Last Friday (CET), big hardware troubles started on the server which db4free.net runs on. The server w...
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Sunday, January 24, 2010

What is happening with db4free.net and where is the Port 3307 server?

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db4free.net users may have noticed that they can't access the server on port 3307 anymore. It isn't gone (yet), but soon will be. I...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Firefox 3.5 and ... some dolphins

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Now here it is, the long awaited Firefox 3.5: So, since there is Firefox 3.5 and since there are dolphins (mascot of MySQL of course), lets ...
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Monday, January 26, 2009

Fedora development repository including MySQL 5.1

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I just noticed that Fedora has updated their development repository to include MySQL 5.1 : Actually it's a pity that MySQL 5.1 didn...
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Dolphins in the Sky

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This blog post has moved. Please find it at: http://www.mpopp.net/2009/01/dolphins-in-the-sky/ .
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Friday, January 09, 2009

db4free.net running on Sun servers

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There's one thing which I believe I never mentioned so far, though it is certainly worth to be mentioned. db4free.net runs on a dedicat...
Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Which browsers and OS do mysql.com visitors use?

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First of all, let me wish all of you a great year 2009! As an old year ends and a new year begins, it's a good time to do some statistic...
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008

db4free.net again offers latest MySQL 6.0 (compiled from source)

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The db4free.net's MySQL 6.0 server is at the very latest state again. I have compiled the server from source, so you can test the very ...
Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Never miss a new product release again

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Would you like to be notified when a new MySQL product is being released? Check this out: (find this in the left sidebar at dev.mysql.com ) ...
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New RSS feeds for MySQL Web Seminars

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We (the MySQL Web team) have now made it easier for you to keep track of upcoming MySQL Live Web Seminars as well as MySQL OnDemand Webinar...
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Integration of Frameworks for Rapid Web Development

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Are you interested in how to integrate the Zend Framework , Smarty and the Yahoo! UI Library into an infrastructure that makes it comforta...
Monday, March 31, 2008

db4free.net now offers MySQL 5.1 *and* MySQL 6.0

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It has been pretty quiet about db4free.net for some time, but now there are news. db4free.net now offers MySQL 6.0 database accounts - in a...
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Friday, August 31, 2007

init_connect system variable

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Even after working with MySQL for quite a long time, I sometimes stumble over great things that I didn't know. It happened to me again w...
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Monday, March 12, 2007

Early registration for MySQL UC ends this week (March 14th)!

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Don't miss this date! March 14th is the last date to get a $200 discount for a MySQL Users Conference registration . Watch out for the ...
Tuesday, January 02, 2007

New db4free.net statistics

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At the end of November, I activated Google Analytics to db4free.net , so now I have the data for a whole month which already shows some inte...

New MySQL related HowTo available

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I just found this new HowTo at www.howtoforge.org : http://www.howtoforge.org/secure_mysql_connection_ssh_tunnel It describes how to set up ...
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Thursday, November 23, 2006

Running Stored Procedures on MySQL 4.x

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This blog post has moved. Please find it at: http://www.mpopp.net/2006/11/running-stored-procedures-on-mysql-4-x/ .
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Friday, October 27, 2006

www.howtoforge.org

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Many of you might know HowToForge , but for those who don't - there's a bunch of excellent and interesting tutorials relating to Lin...
Saturday, October 07, 2006

Official German MySQL 5.1 Reference Manual to be released this month

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All German speaking folks will have a chance to get a printed German MySQL 5.1 Reference Manual which covering 1,312 pages for a price of EU...
Tuesday, October 03, 2006

New Lists of Certified Candidates online

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The Lists of MySQL Certified Candidates now also include the new Certifications for MySQL 5.0 - Certified MySQL 5.0 Developer and Certified ...
Sunday, September 24, 2006

db4free.net now exclusively runs MySQL 5.1

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It's past 7 o'clock in the morning, but this night has been a productive one (hey - no bad thinking please ;-)). I have updated db4f...
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Saturday, September 23, 2006

New information_schema views

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As you might have recognized already, I love to take a look into the Change logs from time to time and hope to find some goodies there. Here...
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Sunday, August 27, 2006

db4free.net runs dev source version again (5.1.12)

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It's three months ago since MySQL 5.1.11 was released and many things have changed since then. Just watch the Change Log for 5.1.12 - I ...
Monday, August 21, 2006

MySQL Playground for Download

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I have now uploaded my MySQL Playground and you can get it from http://www.db4free.org/mysql-playground.tar.gz The size of the file is 1 GB...
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Friday, August 18, 2006

MySQL GUI tools bundle replaces individual GUI tools

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You may have noticed that you don't find any links for MySQL Administrator, MySQL QueryBrowser, MySQL MigrationToolkit and MySQL Workben...
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Wednesday, August 16, 2006

My new MySQL playground

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The VMWare Server allows to do great things that you usually wouldn't like to do on your working machines, mostly because of the danger...
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Thursday, August 10, 2006

A new idea?

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Since we are currently speaking a lot about new ideas , maybe there is one. MySQL provides a lot of Live Web Seminars being offered as On-D...

Supporting ideas and being productive

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Hey, that's a great topic and I very much like Zack 's article and the responses (thanks Roland , Mats ... did I forget someone?). ...
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Wednesday, August 09, 2006

PHP 5 Certification exam available soon

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A new and updated version of the Zend PHP Certification is on the way and will be available starting August, 31st: Zend PHP 5 Certification ...

Too many connections

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Here's another good rule about using MySQL in your application: Never let your application access the MySQL server with a user that has ...
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Friday, August 04, 2006

A good application starts with good database design

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... and most important - good use of SQL! That doesn't sound surprising, I guess. Recently, Giuseppe Maxia provided a good hint ( An ug...
Monday, July 24, 2006

Current activities and plans

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It's very important for me to keep closely in touch with MySQL's products and all the fun stuff that comes with working with databas...
Saturday, July 22, 2006

Forum navigation now available!

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Many people have complained that the new MySQL Forum misses an appropriate navigation. Now it's back: Stay tuned - more enhancements ar...
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