We can use mysql_connect and mysql_select_db functions to create our connections. For closing the connections there is mysql_close function. These are basic functions of managing connections in PHP. There are also a lot of classes made by developers for free.

This is a brief tutorial on Mindscape LightSpeed, an O/R Mapper which is super easy to setup and use. I am using on a project now and wanted to share how simple it is to use, compared to something like Entity Framework from Microsoft.

There are bugs, and then there are bugs. We recently hit one that fell directly in crazy-town category. What exactly would you do if you get this fun message: The query processor ran out of stack space during query optimization. Please simplify the query.

Today we will go over a very simple, but interesting subject. The following error is quite common if you use ORDER BY while creating any view

Learn SQL in simple and easy steps using this tutorial. SQL is a database computer language designed for the retrieval and management of data in relational database.

I've just released version v1.2-20091123 of SQL Server Compressed Backup which is an open source project for backing up SQL Server databases using either gzip, zip or bzip2 compression. Read more for the list of changes and links to the project.