Just to jot it down lest I forget: Tar’ing the local directory and streaming the tarball straight to gzip: tar cvf - . | gzip > target.tar.gz MySQLdump’ing directly to gzip: ...
There are a lot of words about the MySQL upgrade on Ubuntu 10.04 (64 bit specifically, perhaps the 32bit version too?) — it just hangs: You get the hopeful message: Preparing to replace mysql-se ...
Just to have them all in one place, and for posterity’s sake, I’ve pulled together some points on how to optimise your MySQL programming. First off, the result of Session 1 of MySQL Camp 1 ...