Derek Downey

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bio	website	orange-pants.com
	location	Knoxville, TN
	age	30
visits	member for	2 years, 4 months
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I started my professional career as a PHP application developer. A few years later, as the company I worked for grew, I started migrating into the server world. Now I find myself as the DBA and beginner Server Admin.

	9,867 reputation	bio	website	orange-pants.com	visits	member for	2 years, 4 months
42156 badges		location	Knoxville, TN		seen	5 hours ago

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20	INT(5) vs SMALLINT(5)
15	How can I move a database from one server to another?
14	How do convert a 66,862,521 row table from MyISAM to InnoDB without going offline for several hours?
13	Why is Database Administration so hard?
12	Is MySql's LAST_INSERT_ID() function guaranteed to be correct?

9,867 Reputation

+10	Challenge. Split database 500 records in two smaller datasets, randomly
+10	MySQL - Index on a query with order
+10	Advantages and Disadvantages to using ENUM vs Integer types?
+10	Why shouldn't we allow NULLs?

19 Questions

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21	How to safely change MySQL innodb variable 'innodb_log_file_size'?
11	What is the difference between MySQL VARCHAR and TEXT data types?
10	PostgreSQL Stored Procedure Performance
9	Is it unwise to run replication on same physical server?
9	Is it common practice to mix InnoDB and MyISAM tables on same server?

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117 innodb × 44	43 query × 15
62 replication × 33	33 mysql-5.5 × 15
60 performance × 22	32 datatypes × 5
49 database-design × 16	30 myisam × 13

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