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What is MySQL?
Submitted by Dzul on Sat, 04/25/2009 - 14:22
MySQL is a relational database management system (RDBMS) which has more than 11 million installations. The program runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases.
The name "MySQL" is officially pronounced /maɪˌɛskjuːˈɛl/ (My S Q L), not "My sequel" /maɪˈsiːkwəl/. This adheres to the official ANSI pronunciation; SEQUEL was an earlier IBM database language, a predecessor to the SQL language. However, the developers did not take issue with the pronunciation "My sequel" or other local variations.
Quick guide to internationalization (I18N) using PHP and MySQL
Submitted by Ken on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 17:10
Any international programmer will one day be confronted with the problem of handling languages other than English. These contain many diacritics and other letters or symbols which do not exist in the English language. When it goes wrong, things can get very ugly, with strange characters (examples: ¶, é, â, ÃŒ, ü, �, ë, ®, â��, ï) appearing in your database. How do you avoid data corruption and other problems related to character encoding? We won't be explaining everything in-depth, but provide some quick and easy pointers which allow you to get started right away.