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Copying a database between MySQL servers

gabriel — Wed, 25 May 2011 17:40:10 +0000

I was trying to migrate a MySQL database today, that contained Chinese characters. When you dump the database to standard out, like you normally would with mysqldump, the export doesn’t keep the Chinese characters. I did all sorts of things with the character set, etc., and nothing seemed to work. I always ended up with garbage on import. Obviously, the database is UTF-8, but the text file doesn’t work the way I expected. I tried the mysqldump command, passing the -r command, specifying the location to output the file. This is supposed to solve this problem, because it’s not going through standard out. However, you are left using standard in for the import, or you can cut in paste into MySQL Workbench. In any case, none of these worked. The characters were always corrupted. After doing a bit of research, and thinking about it for a few, I realized I could pipe the process directly from one MySQL box to another. This shouldn’t have seemed like rocket science, but I’d never thought of doing an export/import like this before. Here’s the syntax.

First, create the database on the remote machine, either by logging in our through mysqladmin.

mysqladmin -h host_name -u user_name -p create db_name

Next, pipe the dump from the original server to the new server.

mysqldump db_name | mysql -h host_name -u user_name -p db_name

This seems like a really easy solution for migration, though I found virtually no documentation on doing such a migration in this manner.

Why Internet Explorer Continues to Suck

gabriel — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:12:21 +0000

Saw some interesting Acid 3 stats on Twitter today from Chris:

Acid3 Tests = Chrome4.1(100/100), Safari4.05(100/100), Opera10.5(100/100), Firefox3.6(94/100), IE7(6/100), IE8(20/100), IE9(55/100)

Ok Micro$oft, it’s really not that hard. All the cool kids are doing it. Make your damn browser work, so we can move out of 1995, and enter the 21st century.

New Google look

gabriel — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:39:12 +0000

A couple of other places have reported this over the last week, and here’s how to see the new Google. Just use Firebug and modify the DOM to include this javascript while on google.com.

document.cookie=”PREF=ID=20b6e4c2f44943bb:U=4bf292d46faad806:TM=1249677602:LM=1257919388:S=odm0Ys-53ZueXfZG;path=/; domain=.google.com”

Here’s what you’ll see, pretty cool looking so far:

Let me tell you about Vista

gabriel — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:43:39 +0000

I had the misfortune of working with Windows Vista this weekend. Let me just say, I’m a tech kind of guy. I started doing desktop support in 96, dealing with DOS, Windows 3.11, Windows 95 and Windows NT4. Later, that support would include Windows 98, ME, 2K, XP, 2K Server and 2K3 Server. Needless to say, I have lots of experience working with and supporting Windows desktops and applications. Having said that, since switching to a Mac exclusively 4 years ago, I have not had a need to keep up on what is happening in the Windows world. Sure, I work on Windows XP all day at work, but nothing prepared me for the horror that was my Vista experience on Sunday.

Like the rest of you, I’d heard the horror stories. Mostly I just thought it was a poor GUI design and inexperienced users. However, after wasting over an hour trying to get a brand new laptop to connect to a wireless network, that my iPhone connected to in under a minute, I’m no longer blaming it on users. Vista is without a doubt the worst user experience I have ever had. There is not a single thing I can say about it in a positive light.

Here’s an idea, lets take everything that has ever worked in Windows and change it. Lets move the Add/Remove Programs. Lets not give the user the option to turn off the all the annoying, in your face, childish GUI interfaces. My 3 year old could have come up with a better user interface. I won’t even go into how much they tried to steal from Apple and failed at. Oh yeah, what the fuck is up with the big damn clock. Welcome to the 21st century, if I wanted ticking hands on my desktop, I’d be using an analog watch.

I’ve seen Windows 7, and though it doesn’t impress me much, especially since it’s a rip off of OS X a few years back, anything would be better than the Vista experience I just had. Once again, way to set the bar super low, Microsoft. Hey, at least it was cracked in under 15 minutes like their crappy mobile DRM.