ronaldbradford

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by ronaldbradford 13y ago
Testing data serves multiple purposes. Boundary conditions (long fields, unicode etc) is important for invalidation testing. (i.e. Testing to break your code and functionality) Testing at scale is important for performance and predicting b
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by ronaldbradford 13y ago
I find when I commute that writing an email TODO list of the work I will be doing today, or a TODO list of things I want to do next on my side project. Generally it gives me lots of simple ideas. A train trip can be disruptive. Take on task
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by ronaldbradford 13y ago
My 2 cents. 1. OS portability (i.e. a large portion of the Internet world is not MS) 2. Open source community (You can talk to a developer of a library. Can you do that with C#) 3. Can write in simple editor or CLI (IDE's can be nic
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by ronaldbradford 14y ago
I applaud your initiative. I am doing something similar, but textual. I also believe that http://www.wolframalpha.com/ does graphing of data.
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by ronaldbradford 18y ago
This is also multiplied by the character encoding, so when you have a table with 10 columns at VARCHAR(255) because your too lazy to define them, and they are all UTF8, so that's 255*3 for each column for each row when used in a MySQL Inter
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by ronaldbradford 18y ago
As a database architect expert, I generally average a 25-30% reduction in the Disk Footprint of the database, sometimes with zero impact for application changes. I use a very simple equation. DISK = MEMORY = PERFORMANCE Reducing the size o
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by ronaldbradford 18y ago
A video of the presentation can be found at http://technocation.org/node/533/play
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by ronaldbradford 18y ago
axod, you can download these slides and other MySQL related presentations directly from http://ronaldbradford.com/presentations/