If you’re like me, you love the granular permissions capabilities of MySQL but hate the work that goes into managing them…
Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be anything like groups in MySQL and according to plans won’t be added officially until MySQL 7.0 (WL#988)…
While searching around, I found Securich…

Last night I watched almost the entire 5 hour live webcast announcing Oracle’s strategies regarding the Sun Microsystems acquisition. As a near-evangelist for Sun and Solaris, I’m very happy with the deal finally going through and even happier that most of what Oracle said makes sense to me as a customer.

Obviously, it is easy…

Reporting projects are the kind of projects which never seem to end. After a couple iterations I’ve come to the following conclusions:

Absolutely no reports should run on a production database.
Moving/aggregating data from a production database to a reporting database using ETL tools prone to synchronization issues and pretty unreliable.
The best option is to set…

I’ve been working with Unix for a fairly long time now- about 13 years.
I’ll admit that I started with Linux and thought it was light years ahead of SunOS 4.x running on those old SPARC machines- I mean who had heard of SPARC processors? I remember my boss trying to explain to me that…