Tag Archives: MySQL

Mediatemple Grid Server (gs) MySQL and Support Problems

Let me be honest, I really REALLY want to like Mediatemple. Their website is extremely well designed, there’s loads of support information in their customer area, their GPU system gives you detailed information on high-resource scripts and files on your … Continue reading

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Automatic Local, FTP & Email Backups of MySQL Databases with Cron

I’ll start by saying this is not all my own code, it is based on dagon design’s original release in 2007 (Automatic MySql Backup Script) but this version builds on their version 2.1 to add FTP support. What this script … Continue reading

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Simple Math – Updating MySQL Prices by a Percentage (And rounding)

The other day we had the simple request from a client – they asked us to update every price on their site. They asked us to increase their prices on ALL their products by 8%. This is a simple bit … Continue reading

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