Monthly Archives: October 2012
What version of Firefox is this user agent string?
Is it really a Firefox browser? When I was first shown the user agent string below and asked ‘what version of Firefox is this?’ At first I took this at face value, it’s obviously a Firefox browser, it says “Mozilla” right there, right? Digging a little deeper, it turned out not only was this wrong, but the question was wrong as well! …
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Posted in Web technologies
Tagged Firefox, User agent string
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From what size of data MySQL is not performant any more?
Is this the right Question? Somebody asked me this question and I told myself to write about that topic. This questions are always lacking of of context, but there might be a correct answer. Usually you don’t reach the performance limit of MySQL very easily. Its the wrong questions you ask…
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Posted in Database
Tagged Database Design, Database Indexes, MySQL, Performance
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