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Things I learned while restoring multi-million rows table in mysql

By broncha in articles, Misc., Server Admin on September 2, 2011

Recently someone contacted me to restore a huge database to their new servers.The database dump file was about 5GB having around 13 millions records.Each row included a huge TEXT field. The new server was a dedicated server from Godaddy. The initial step was not so hard. It is a good practice to disable indexes while importing huge database and when all the rows are done inserting enable the indexes. all the command to do this

Tags: database, filesort, import huge tables, keycache, mysql, repair table

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The Kumar’s poem

By broncha in articles, Humor, Misc. on June 8, 2010

I don’t know why I like this, but I think this is a good example that everyone possess emotions.Just the expression of those emotions differ.Here is the poem by Kumar from “Harold and Kumar escape from Guantanamo Bay”

Tags: Humor, poem

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How to Set Gmail as Firefox Default Email Client

By broncha in Misc. on April 9, 2009

[digg=http://digg.com/tech_news/Make_gmail_your_default_mail_client]In some occasions when you click on an email link while browsing some webpages, you will be prompted with email clients such as Microsoft Window Mail for Vista or Microsoft Outlook Express for XP. If your email client has yet to be configured, you need to set up and configure it before you can send out emails. It is quite troublesome and inconvenient if you haven’t done so. Anyway, if you are Gmail and Firefox

Tags: firefox, gmail, mail, preference

How to Set Gmail as Firefox Default Email Client

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Why log into all the mailboxes?Send out all emails from your gmail mailbox

By broncha in Misc. on March 6, 2009

I am sure you are not not using only one email address.Surely you have emails from many providers with different identities(like I do) and all the emails forwarded to the main account.I use different ids in gmail with different identities Yahoo mail with differenr identitity. Now if you are logged in to your mailbox and need to send out email to someone with different idedntity or lets say you want the recipent to see your

Tags: email, gmail