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MySQL defaults evolution

(Giuseppe Maxia) MySQL, the original brand, the one developed by the MySQL team at Oracle, is steadily evolving. You can feel it if you try every new release that comes out of the milestone release cycle. Or even if you don’t try all of them, just testing a release once in a while gives you somethin

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A Database Utility to the Rescue

(Mike Walker and Lester Knutsen) What can be done about accidentally deleting a critical table? What if a WHERE clause in an update statement was omitted, causing important data to be overwritten? Recently, a client organization had one of those heart-stopping moments after deleting all the rows in