4 Strong Reasons Why You Should Use MySQLi And Not MySQL Extenstion
All my life (till now that is) I have been a self taught programmer and it was like seven years back in 2006 when I...
Category: Database
How To Setup & Install MongoDB, PHP & Apache On An Ubuntu Server
In one of our recent website app projects, we planned to use MongoDB as our main database. Since we are hardcore PHP guys, we do...
Fedora 15 “LoveLock” To Get MySQL 5.5 & PostGreSQL 9
Fedora has always kept it's promise of bringing cutting-edge computer technology to it's users. It has now been confirmed that Fedora 15 "LoveLock" will ship two database packages: MySQL 5.5 and PostGreSQL 9.
Twitter ditches MySQL for Cassandra
According to Ryan King, a software engineer at Twitter, the MySQL database used in Twitter is going to be replaced by the open source Cassandra...
SQL Injection – 2 (Fingerprinting)
This is a follow up to the post SQL Injection – An Introduction. If you are new to this, I stongly suggest you read the...
SQL Injection – 1 (Introduction)
In this post we shall discuss a very common method of hacking a website (or rather, a database) called SQL Injection. The object of this...