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Important MySQL DBA Interview Questions

Here are a few sets of interview questions expected for MySQL DBA position.These are compilation of the usual questions from various DBA texts: What is Log Switch? – The point at which ORACLE ends writing to one online redo log file and begins writin …

Installing Django on Dreamhost

Installing Django in Dreamhost and getting it to run wasn’t straight forward at-least to me. There was lot of issues such as python bin directory not accessible as its shared and so. So the initial step in this to setup python yourself so that you can …

Get the nth Word from a text field in mysql

I had a requirement to get the nth word out of a string and sort or order by the same. This is used when the text is stored in a purticular format and you would want to order it according to that or group it or so on. So how is it done? We do it us …

Display row number in Mysql Select Query

How many times did want to have the row number or the position of the row in the selected query? I had many cases where I needed this feature. I needed the feature for printing the rank of a person where each row is the mark of the person. So lets see how  …

Find Invisible Users In Gmail

Finding who is invisible is something that I always wanted to do.It’s always fun to ping a person who feels none can see him/her online. While studying XMPP protocol I found out that even when the person is offline the chat client knows that person is onli …

“Send To” in Linux for Nautilus

It’s been a common practice among the windows users to right click and search for “Send To” option when a file needs to copied to the USB or any other Drive. Why spare me, even i used to do this while using windows, when to my astonishment i found that th …

Customizing Mysql Prompt For multiple Servers

If you are using mysql regularly on multiple servers its really useful to have the promt in mysql to show something more than mysql>. It would be useful if it showed the username,hostname, current database and things like that. So how to do this.  …

Generate Date from a range in Mysql and pad the results where no date is present

If you want to generate dates, MYSQL doesn’t have a range function, so I wrote a work around for the same. So how  it works is I have reused a code to generate numbers from my previous post. So I added date function to that query and reduce the generated  …