I am so pleased to announce that I have published my very first mini eBook, “10 MySQL Tips For Everyone”. Continue reading to find out what it’s about, and how to get your copy.

What is the 10 MySQL Tips For Everyone eBook about?

In this eBook, I share 10 useful tips for anyone working with the MySQL database. These tips are a mix of the relatively common, and a couple of my personal own that I have realized or discovered as I continue to learn MySQL.

Here are a couple of my favorites.

So you’re (hopefully) wondering how you can get your own free copy of “10 MySQL Tips For Everyone”.

Super easy…

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That’s it.

Adminer is a full-featured database management tool written in PHP. In this tutorial, I will explain how to install Adminer on Alma Linux 8.

Get ready for another jam-packed full OpenLampTech newsletter issue this week. If you are a PHP/MySQL developer, this is the newsletter for you. Let’s see what this latest issue has in store…

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Just like always, we have some great curated and original content in this week’s issue:

• MySQL NULLs in the ORDER BY clause
• PHP complete login and authentication
• How to use PHP and MySQL
• MySQL Events
• Missing MySQL extension for WordPress
• Free MySQL ebook
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Is MySQL performance about “more” or “less”? From the title, you can tell that I’m going to argue that it’s about “less”. Here’s the punchline: zero is maximum performance. Let’s see where this philosophical blog post leads us.

Is MySQL performance about “more” or “less”? From the title, you can tell that I’m going to argue that it’s about “less”. Here’s the punchline: zero is maximum performance. Let’s see where this philosophical blog post leads us.

Is MySQL performance about “more” or “less”? From the title, you can tell that I’m going to argue that it’s about “less”. Here’s the punchline: zero is maximum performance. Let’s see where this philosophical blog post leads us.

If you are like me, you enjoy your newsletter reading time. If you are a PHP/MySQL developer or a blogging developer yourself, then this post is definitely for you. Continue reading for additional details…

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Oracle released MySQL 8.0.28 on January 18th with little fanfare, as part of their four times a year release cycle.  So what is included in the new release? Over the past few years, there have been some cool new features included in these ‘dot’ releases that some in the community say would have been better off being labeled as a major release. But what is in .28? Below are the more interesting changes in the database server and the shell, as there was not a whole lot changed in the other products such as router or MEM… I put my asides in italics and my views probably do not reflect the views of anyone else.

And remember, 8.0.29 is due in April.

The TL;DR

The TL;DR synopsis is that a lot of excellent work went into MySQL Server & shell 8.0.28 but the pressing question is do you really need to install it right away?  On the scale from ‘you probably should wait to upgrade’ to ‘update ASAP’ it …

Joining individual pieces of text data into a singular string is nothing new in the programming world and all languages support some form of concatenation. In MySQL, you can use the CONCAT() function. Let’s see how…

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Do you know what time it is? The time for your weekly PHP/MySQL content is here! Enjoy OpenLampTech issue #17. As always there is plenty to read in this latest issue…

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