I ran into an issue running the LOAD DATA INFILE command from a PHP script the other day. When I logged in as ROOT and executed the script on MySQL Query Browser it worked like a charm. However, when I executed the script from PHP as another use with only SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE [...]
Yearly Archives: 2009
Re-installation of MySQL 5.x
A friend of mine recently had an issue while installing MySQL 5.1.34 on a Windows 2003 R2 system using the binary installer. All seemed to have gone well with the install except that when it was done he couldn’t log into the database as root. Obviously, we thought that the password was wrong, so we [...]
A new partnership
I’ve teamed up with Rolling Star Limited, an email marketing and sms marketing firm based in London, UK to perform integration services between their top notch email and sms platform and third party CRM systems. RSEmail is a full featured platform with a powerful feature set that allows you to perform very advanced email and sms [...]
My first trip to Paris
I know this is a bit off topic but I felt I had to write about my trip to Paris, France. I’m not the most travelled person in the world but I have to say that Paris has to be my favourite city so far. Sure it was for vacation and maybe if I lived [...]
Filezilla FTP Client and Synchronised Browsing
I am one of those people who doesn’t generally upgrade to the latest version of software just because a new version is out. I take security seriously so I do patch my OS and perform updates when they include a security fix but other than that, if something is working great I leave well enough [...]




