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A MySql Backup Script (with Download Speeds & Hipchat Integration)
It’s a common problem we developers come across, we need to keep a backup of our databases so that if anything happens to our live database we still have a copy of the data. This is a quick script which uses the mysqldump command to grab a copy of a database and save it. It saves the file as a gzip file (because it saves a mega amount of space over time).SQL Searching with Relevance and Natural Language Processing
Working at a start-up in the early stages things are often built to solve a problem at the time, more often than not with a specific client in mind and time-frame in mind. As the company grows and becomes more established sometimes this very same code needs to scale or change based on features or performance original anticipated. One example of this is if your building your own search queries in SQL.