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		<title>Beware of starting slaves from the position in the master.info file</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 02:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Singer Wang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve seen many a good DBA make the master of starting slaves from the position in the master.info file, most recently this week, that I want to bring it to everyone&#8217;s attention. Of course I mean the underlying issue and not the names of the DBA because that would be cruel. In the typical scenario [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle: Limiting Query Runtime Without Killing the Session</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Ruthner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, a customer request came in to limit the runtime of a query in a 10g database for a certain user. But since connection pooling was being used, the session itself should NOT be killed. Now, why would somebody ask for that? I think a reason to implement such a restriction is, for example, if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MySQL: Replacing URL Escape Sequences</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you want to store URLs in MySQL, and the URLs have those annoying %20%27%7C%26%5E%2B%2D%25 symbols? And you want to be able to show your users some kind of human-readable information. You might want to consider using this trick. Take this list of commonly escaped characters as an example: %20 - space %27 - ' [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MS Windows Vista Tips for Administrators</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan Polnicky</dc:creator>
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