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Congratulations – you've landed your first big enterprise client. Now you need to do what you said you'd do, and make everyone happy in the process. This article will show you how to use techniques for visibility and verification to do most things – setting up processes and systems, doing QA …
When we speak of storing images or binary data in a database many will assume we wish to use the data in a production environment such as a web based application in conjunction with PHP or other language.There can be no argument that when speed of access is paramount, image and …
The first part of this article gave a theoretical overview and reviewed ways of optimizing data structures. In this part we will deal with runtime parameters and optimizing queries.With SQL common problems can be solved in many ways. Everybody has a different style and approach. Depending on the kind of application …
While this is a Java marketing phrase it is also a key feature of PHP.Many business models dependon operating system independence to ensure that products can be sold to a wide range of customers. So why lock yourself in with a specific database vendor? Database abstraction layers allow you to develop …
When talking about database development and database administration, performance tuning isan essential topic. PostgreSQL is one of the most widespread Open Source databases available and it provides a rich set of advanced features as well as options for efficient tuning.This is the first part of an article about tuning PostgreSQL. We …
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AJAX and PHP: Building Responsive Web Applications
Cristian Darie, Bogdan Brinzarea, Filip CherecheŞ-ToŞa, Mihai Bucica
This book is a practical introduction to creating more responsive web pages using Ajax with PHP and MySQL on the server side. Every chapter is a …