Someone pointed out to me that the publisher has made an electronic copy of my EnterpriseDB: The Definitive Reference book available as a PDF on their web site.

It's been removed.

When you work in the same field for several years, you risk to become effective but unimaginative. You may be good at coding queries or designing tables, but sometimes you lose track with your origins, when you were a creative programmer, who used to tweak the intricacies of C++ or Perl to create marvelous useless brilliancies.
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So, I just fixed a behavior in PEAR::DB. In isManip, a regular expression is called on every query that goes through the PEAR::DB layer. That sucks btw, but the purpose of function is to tell the classes that inherit from DB that the query passed is a query that affects data.

The code is as follows

 function isManip($query)
    {
        $manips = 'INSERT|UPDATE|DELETE|REPLACE|'
                . 'CREATE|DROP|'
                . 'LOAD DATA|SELECT .* INTO .* FROM|COPY|'
                . 'ALTER|GRANT|REVOKE|'
                . 'LOCK|UNLOCK';
        if (preg_match('/^\s*"?(' . $manips . ')\s+/i', $query)) {
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

Then in mysql.php there is this

function affectedRows() …

MySQL Documentation: dev.mysql.com

Sun Documentation: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs

Zones: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/zones/

Resource Pools: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1592/6mhahuolg?a=view

ZFS (New File System): http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/ds/zfs.jsp

SMF (Service Management Facility): http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2006/04/13/using-solaris-smf.html

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