Tag: MySQL

Down on the Street: Palo Alto Honda Accord CB

Also this photo of a Honda Accord CB was taken in the United States when I was visiting for the MySQL conference. We visited the Wallmart Superstore in Palo Alto as we were a bit disappointed last year by size of the normal Wallmart in Milpitas. We didn’t know there was such a thing as…




Down on the Street: Great Mall Nissan 370Z

Last week I attended the MySQL conference in Santa Clara (CA) as a speaker. I didn’t have much time to do fun stuff but I spotted some occasional cars parked around. This Nissan 370Z was one of them: The car had a for sale sign at the rear window, so if you are interested you…




The other me

After yesterdays shameless plug I’ll do another one today! 😉 Not many people actually know what I’m doing for a living, so here it is: I’m a database specialist within Spil Games, specialized in high availability systems and MySQL. The latter is of course my main concern during the day. If maintaining two blogs and…




Programming: ON DUPLICATE KEY MySQL weirdness

I had some weirdness with MySQL today… Updating on a duplicate key error works like a charm: it updates the row which violates with the key and everybody is happy! Well, actually I’m not… I encountered this problem today. I had a table with a number and an average and the table named averages looked…