12 Feb

MySQL Character encoding - part 1

Breaking and unbreaking your data Recently at FOSDEM, Maciej presented "Breaking and unbreaking your data", a presentation about the potential problems you can incur regarding character encoding whilst working with MySQL. In short, there are a myriad of places where character encoding can be controlled, which gives ample opportunity for the system to break and for text to become unrecoverable.

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04 Feb

WebScaleSQL RPMs available at PSCE repository

Driven by popularity of previous post about Debian/Ubuntu builds of WebScaleSQL and long discussions during FOSDEM conference this weekend, PSCE engineering team decided to put even more effort into.

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