Comments on: Bloggers, Get Familiar With Your Database http://www.problogdesign.com/general-tips/bloggers-get-familiar-with-your-database/ Better Looking Blogs Grow Faster Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:09:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: healthecigar http://www.problogdesign.com/general-tips/bloggers-get-familiar-with-your-database/#comment-33285 healthecigar Mon, 21 Nov 2011 07:43:49 +0000 http://www.problogdesign.com/general-tips/bloggers-get-familiar-with-your-database/#comment-33285 like your post. like your post.

]]> By: Paula Dalesio http://www.problogdesign.com/general-tips/bloggers-get-familiar-with-your-database/#comment-20255 Paula Dalesio Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:03:14 +0000 http://www.problogdesign.com/general-tips/bloggers-get-familiar-with-your-database/#comment-20255 I appreciate the work that your are doing!! I appreciate the work that your are doing!!

]]> By: thiru http://www.problogdesign.com/general-tips/bloggers-get-familiar-with-your-database/#comment-5995 thiru Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:06:04 +0000 http://www.problogdesign.com/general-tips/bloggers-get-familiar-with-your-database/#comment-5995 Hi all, I am new in database side,ple if u have any suggestions for me let me know ,and ple if u have any one database foundamentals ple send me. My quction is i know data ,but i don't no database and i don't no table name. how can find databasename or table name,please help me Kindly thankful Thiru......... Hi all,

I am new in database side,ple if u have any suggestions for me let me know ,and ple if u have any one database foundamentals ple send me.

My quction is i know data ,but i don’t no database and i don’t no table name. how can find databasename or table name,please help me

Kindly thankful

Thiru………

]]> By: goldfries http://www.problogdesign.com/general-tips/bloggers-get-familiar-with-your-database/#comment-5808 goldfries Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:45:00 +0000 http://www.problogdesign.com/general-tips/bloggers-get-familiar-with-your-database/#comment-5808 phpMyAdmin is good. I use them. For me, I have a few blogs, or more like I have sites that uses blog engines but require modification. phpMyAdmin helps me a lot by allowing me to browse the DB structure and also run SQL query here and there to test out the returned result. With this, it's not uncommon to see my sites having heavliy modified wordpress themes, and quite often modified down to even the core engine of WP. phpMyAdmin is good. I use them.

For me, I have a few blogs, or more like I have sites that uses blog engines but require modification.

phpMyAdmin helps me a lot by allowing me to browse the DB structure and also run SQL query here and there to test out the returned result.

With this, it’s not uncommon to see my sites having heavliy modified wordpress themes, and quite often modified down to even the core engine of WP.

]]> By: Michael Martin http://www.problogdesign.com/general-tips/bloggers-get-familiar-with-your-database/#comment-5709 Michael Martin Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:21:19 +0000 http://www.problogdesign.com/general-tips/bloggers-get-familiar-with-your-database/#comment-5709 Marconi, Thanks for sharing :) It looks like a good product, but for a blogger, they only need basic use from their database. There isn't much need for us to spend $99 on a database tool. phpMyAdmin covers what we need for free. Marconi,
Thanks for sharing :)

It looks like a good product, but for a blogger, they only need basic use from their database. There isn’t much need for us to spend $99 on a database tool. phpMyAdmin covers what we need for free.

]]> By: Marconi http://www.problogdesign.com/general-tips/bloggers-get-familiar-with-your-database/#comment-5708 Marconi Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:10:59 +0000 http://www.problogdesign.com/general-tips/bloggers-get-familiar-with-your-database/#comment-5708 hi guys, i am using SQLyog since a long time which has made easy to manage my MySQL databases far easier than using the CLI interface. It wonderful GUI is also a tremendous improvement. i was suggested by few of my collegues. highly recommendable. hi guys, i am using SQLyog since a long time which has made easy to manage my MySQL databases far easier than using the CLI interface. It wonderful GUI is also a tremendous improvement. i was suggested by few of my collegues. highly recommendable.

]]> By: Michael Martin http://www.problogdesign.com/general-tips/bloggers-get-familiar-with-your-database/#comment-5624 Michael Martin Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:33:35 +0000 http://www.problogdesign.com/general-tips/bloggers-get-familiar-with-your-database/#comment-5624 Slevi, Thanks for the link. I've used SSH to do my backups before, but never set it up as a cron job. I'll have to read into it. :D Slevi,
Thanks for the link. I’ve used SSH to do my backups before, but never set it up as a cron job. I’ll have to read into it. :D

]]> By: Slevi http://www.problogdesign.com/general-tips/bloggers-get-familiar-with-your-database/#comment-5623 Slevi Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:18:26 +0000 http://www.problogdesign.com/general-tips/bloggers-get-familiar-with-your-database/#comment-5623 Could do, but you can also do it directly through mysqldump in case your host allows that. It's basically the backup utility of the mysql server itself. For example if your host comes with cPanel there are two ways to do this, one is the manual way through the icon entitled "Backups" and pick database backup there. Another option is to do it through cronjobs so you can even set it to be run on whichever timeframe you desire, a topic which explains on how to do that to some extent can be found <a href="http://forums.asmallorange.com/index.php?showtopic=5481" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Although for most bloggers cronjobs will probably just make their heads spin :P. Could do, but you can also do it directly through mysqldump in case your host allows that. It’s basically the backup utility of the mysql server itself.

For example if your host comes with cPanel there are two ways to do this, one is the manual way through the icon entitled “Backups” and pick database backup there.

Another option is to do it through cronjobs so you can even set it to be run on whichever timeframe you desire, a topic which explains on how to do that to some extent can be found here. Although for most bloggers cronjobs will probably just make their heads spin :P.

]]> By: Michael Martin http://www.problogdesign.com/general-tips/bloggers-get-familiar-with-your-database/#comment-5621 Michael Martin Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:12:02 +0000 http://www.problogdesign.com/general-tips/bloggers-get-familiar-with-your-database/#comment-5621 Thanks for the explanation Slevi. I'm glad someone with a much great database knowledge than me was here to help! So for safety sake, it might be worth making 2 backups? (One with BLOB as hexadecimal on, and one without). I'll remember that, thanks. :) Thanks for the explanation Slevi. I’m glad someone with a much great database knowledge than me was here to help!

So for safety sake, it might be worth making 2 backups? (One with BLOB as hexadecimal on, and one without). I’ll remember that, thanks. :)

]]> By: Slevi http://www.problogdesign.com/general-tips/bloggers-get-familiar-with-your-database/#comment-5618 Slevi Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:11:45 +0000 http://www.problogdesign.com/general-tips/bloggers-get-familiar-with-your-database/#comment-5618 The reason is not so much because of the BLOB but because phpmyadmin is a disaster with it, in a lot of occasions you might run into problems importing the database again if exported with phpmyadmin. So it makes it rather useless to make a backup as you can't do anything with it. Doubt your average blog makes use of blobs though. There's not much need to it after all, blogs are mainly text. We dun store much else within our database. Whereas blobs are used to actually store binary, video and image files for example within the database. Unless you have any plugin doing that, there's most likely not a single blob field within your blog to be found. Also for command line backups that directly gives a reason though not to do daily fully backups with blobs on for that matter, you're really not going to be thinking about several dozen or hundreds of megabytes in data but quickly running up into hundreds of gigabytes and even terabytes if you run for example a video site and store the data within a database. With old content not changing there's no need to waste bandwidth that way then, instead simply backing up the latest only :). The reason is not so much because of the BLOB but because phpmyadmin is a disaster with it, in a lot of occasions you might run into problems importing the database again if exported with phpmyadmin.

So it makes it rather useless to make a backup as you can’t do anything with it. Doubt your average blog makes use of blobs though.

There’s not much need to it after all, blogs are mainly text. We dun store much else within our database. Whereas blobs are used to actually store binary, video and image files for example within the database. Unless you have any plugin doing that, there’s most likely not a single blob field within your blog to be found.

Also for command line backups that directly gives a reason though not to do daily fully backups with blobs on for that matter, you’re really not going to be thinking about several dozen or hundreds of megabytes in data but quickly running up into hundreds of gigabytes and even terabytes if you run for example a video site and store the data within a database. With old content not changing there’s no need to waste bandwidth that way then, instead simply backing up the latest only :).

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