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Jan 04 2010
Hello.
I’d like to share my script, which I use on some production servers for quick database backup using mysql tools. People say, that I should use bash for that, but I prefer PHP 
Script uses mysqldump for dumping databases and gzip for compressing backups. rm is run to ensure backups are not stored for too long.
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Aug 25 2008
Recently I needed to quickly change charset on all tables and change each field’s chanset in each table in a specific database to latin1 and collation to latin1_swedish_ci. I googled a little and found this solution by shimon doodkin. I used it and it did work, but also it attempted to change charset at MySQL information_schema system database which is something I didn’t want to. It also proceessed all databases at MySQL server. Luckily, there was only two It was a test server, that’s why I was uncareful.
Ok. I wrote a bit more elegant solution I would like to share with you today. It is pretty self-explanatory and is based on ALTER TABLE CONVERT TO charset MySQL statement.
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Aug 24 2008
As you probably know, latest software versions are rarely available to be installed as rpms. So, you need to compile them yourself. In this article I will briefly describe a process of installing, configuring and upgrading latest Apache and PHP.
Please remember, that installing from sources can sometimes break working system. So, please use this guide carefully.
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