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MySQL Tutorial – Introduction

(Gez Lemon) Released in January 1998, MySQL is an open source relational database management system (RDBMS). It’s based around the Structured Query Language (SQL), and is best for managing the content of the database as opposed to transactions, as MySQL does not support COMMIT or ROLLBACK. One of th

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Case Study: High-Hat Delivers!

(Robert Schneider) To augment his already-stellar decision-making skills, High-Hat Airways’ CEO employs a diverse squadron of soothsayers, astrologists, and fortune tellers. For months, these experts have been pushing him to enter the lucrative package shipment marketplace. The CEO has been relu

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The future is open source

(Danny Bradbury) Like many developments in the IT sector, open source seemed to come out of nowhere. Linux was first developed in 1991, and since it began to be taken seriously as a commercial product a few years later, the industry has been caught up in a whirlwind that saw developing business mode

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Learning PHP, Part 2

(Tyler Anderson and Nicholas Chase) This tutorial is Part 2 of a three-part series that takes you from the most basic PHP script to working with databases and streaming from the file system by documenting the building of a document workflow system. Here, documents are uploaded by users and stored in