I’ll be out of town for work, but #okcmysql member Josh Walcher (http://www.bigboardroom.com/) will be driving a discussion about scaling applications using various automation, APIs, and other techniques. The goal is to hopefully introduce folks to some new ideas while having an interactive discussion to see what others are doing to manage similar issues. Pizza will be provided as […]
Month: June 2015
Installing MySQL for Testing – Part 2
As a continuation of Part 1 in this tutorial, we’ll work through some basic interaction with our test database using MySQL Workbench. Some things we’ll cover include: Setting our current database Creating a new table Inserting rows into a table Selecting rows from a table Basic UI review of Workbench Without further adieu, lets get started […]
Installing MySQL for Testing – Part 1
At long last… the first real post of the intro series on getting started with MySQL! (Better late than never, right?) There are a few ways you can go about setting up a test instance that are generally shared across Operating Systems: Install locally on your machine (Windows, OSX, Linux) https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ Set up a local Virtual […]
Operating System Survey
As I start to work through some various tutorials and other instructional guides, I want to get a feel for what people are using. Please let me know what OS you are currently using and which OS(s) you feel comfortable with. Ideally, I’m planning to provide a VirtualBox appliance built out with CentOS (linux) that […]