Archive | December, 2007

Top 10 Reasons for NOT backing up your data

In this modern age we live in, who has time to backup their data? It’s such a hassle! Not to mention it’s really complicated and expensive. I was thinking about backups the other day and there’s practically *no reason* to do it! In fact, I came up with 10 reasons not to make backups. I [...]

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Subtracting unsigned integers with MySQL

Unsigned integer values are used in a database when you only expect to contain positive values and no negative values (less than zero). If you know a certain field will never legitimately contain negative values, then this is actually the most efficient field type to select. There is a catch with unsigned ints however that [...]

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