Category Archives: MySQL

MySQL whitespace policy on VARCHAR changed in 5.0.3

Posted on 2/12/2007 by Jason

Here’s a fun one: I was troubleshooting some text import code that takes a pipe delimited text file and stuffs it into a database, but only if there’s been an update to the given row. The thing was, it was … Continue reading →

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MySQL and ASP.NET performance

Posted on 10/25/2006 by Jason

Karl Seguin’s got a post on a topic near and dear to my heart – MySQL on Windows. We’re running ASP.NET with a MySQL back end, which happens to be the same kind of setup that he’s looking at for … Continue reading →

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New MySQL Connector/Net 1.08 RC available

Posted on 10/23/2006 by Jason

I just spotted a (long-awaited!) update to the MySQL Connector/Net – version 1.08 RC is now available for download. I was about to patch my own to resolve the “Character set ‘utf8′ is not supported” issue, but now I might … Continue reading →

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