Category: MySQL Benchmarking Concepts and Strategies

MySQL is the world s most popular open source relational database management system RDBMS . As a result over ten million installations are spread around the globe. Nevertheless in reality only a small percentage of those are actually high performance optimized and tuned servers. This four-part article series targets the […]

In this article we will discuss security for databases accessed through the Internet. We will also examine the issue of password management since handling that task properly will help us make our web site and its applications more secure. This is the seventh part of an eight-part series that shows you how to build […]

In this eighth part of a nine-part series on the Python programming language we focus strongly on two aspects of functions parameters and arguments. This article is excerpted from chapter four of the book em Python in a Nutshell Second Edition em written by Alex Martelli O […]

If you re a PHP developer who wants to learn the basics of implementing customized exceptions in PHP 5 then look no further because you ve come to the right place. This is the third part of a four-part series entitled Subclassing exceptions in PHP 5. It teaches you how to […]

In this final part of a four-part series I give you my enhancements to the AJAX approach to Active Client Pages. Before I conclude the series I will introduce two other approaches to you. Keep reading to learn how to help your web pages load more quickly….
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In this article we will be exploring the registration script of our site. This script is responsible for registering new users for the website. We will also be looking at database security since the registration script also uses a database table we will implement some of the concepts that we will be discussing. […]

In this seventh part of a nine-part series on the Python language we continue our discussion of statements and move on to functions. This article is excerpted from chapter four of the book em Python in a Nutshell Second Edition em written by Alex Martelli O Reilly […]

Welcome to the second part of a four-part series on sub classing exceptions in PHP 5. In the first part of this series you learned how to build a basic processing class which could throw customized exceptions to client code. What you haven t yet learned however is how to build the […]

This is the third part of my four-part series Active Client Pages An Ajax Approach. In this part I illustrate the Ajax approach with a simple example complete with code. Be sure to read the first two parts they will help you understand what I m trying to accomplish […]

In this article we will continue our discussion of authentication and how it helps in securing web applications. You will probably recall from the last article that I mentioned the existence of two methods of authentication and discussed the first one which is through an HTML form. In this article the fifth one […]