Tag Archives: database

Brent Ozar – RAID 0 SATA with 2 Drives: It’s Web Scale!

Good dis­cus­sion on scal­ing you data­base servers.

March 6, 2011 – 1:03 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Forbes – The Real Lessons Of Gawker’s Security Mess

Basi­cally what­ever bad/stupid thing Gawker could have done they did includ­ing ignor­ing the problem.

December 13, 2010 – 11:44 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Communication, Security, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Tumblr Staff – Downtime

Tum­blr went down for about 22 hours, this is their response.

December 6, 2010 – 9:37 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

High Scalability – Strategy: Google Sends Canary Requests into the Data Mine

Google of course has a really solid solu­tion to solv­ing the Query of Death issue.

December 5, 2010 – 6:33 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

bluesmoon – Handling Date/Times and timezones

What are the basic rules for stor­ing times in a web application.

July 27, 2010 – 12:25 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

The Certified DBA – The Daily WTF

Being an expert and being right are never one and the same.

March 23, 2010 – 10:12 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Random, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

SQL: The Basics

SQL is a domain spe­cific lan­guage (a lan­guage designed to do one thing and knock the socks off at doing it) that just accesses data­bases. Okay but what is a data­base? Well a data­base is essen­tially a col­lec­tion of data, yeah I know that doesn’t help much. To clar­ify we’ll play a lit­tle men­tal exer­cise. Imag­ine …

May 9, 2009 – 10:40 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Programming | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off