A description of using pipes with ssh in a way that allows the results of mysqldump on a remote machine to be stored locally without creating a temporary file.
In order to take advantage of the BIGINT storage with Rails migrations you first need to create a normal integer and then change the column to a BIGINT.
Connector/NET, written in C#, has some upsides over the ODBC driver. Unfortunately, we ran into a number of problems with it and switched to the ODBC driver.
It happens countless times for many reasons. You attempt to start or restart your MySQL server after a small configuration change and MySQL stubbornly refuses to start.