December 4, 2010 at 4:14 pm
Luke L (12/3/2010)
Grant Fritchey (12/3/2010)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/3/2010)
Alvin Ramard (12/3/2010)
I have a confession to make.While setting up WordPress yesterday, I had to create a MySQL database.
I hope y'all will forgive me. 😛
Hope everyone is having a great day.
@sqlandy setup WordPress on our SQLShare server, using MySQL. He wasn't happy, but ultimately he was more concerned with WordPress as a tool and not worried about the underlying platform. He's trying to convince me to move my Blogspot blogs over there.
I've got to support him on that. WordPress is simply outstanding.
For those of you who are WordPress bloggers, I'm curious about something. For those who have their wordpress blog hosted by someone, how do they handle patching wordpress. Same for those who host it yourselves... I.E. the patch that came out at the beginning of the week fixing a SQL injection vulnerability. How quickly do you or your provider update your/their instance? Is it fairly painless or have there been issues with previous updates? It seems to be a platform that's becoming targeted more and more by the bad guys.
-Luke.
I run the updates when I am ready. Godaddy hosts my blog domain. But I handle the wordpress updates. So far, the updates have been without problem for me. I also take backups of the database just in case.
Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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December 5, 2010 at 1:32 pm
I think he wanted it to, but wasnt' interested in the beta versions. I know we talked to a guy at MS that was looking at a translation driver that would pull the PostgreSQL calls and translate them to MSSSQL calls in real time, but not sure where it went.
There are some people running MSSQL as WordPress backwend, but it's a bit of a kludge. Not sure how many plug-ins it breaks. I think we may have Brad looking at here for here as well.
December 5, 2010 at 3:22 pm
Heh... I found a way around all of the "problems" with WordPress... I write articles on SQL Server instead of blogging. 😛
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 5, 2010 at 5:42 pm
I had enough of WordPress for now.
Getting it up and running was easy. Getting all the plugins was a pain!!! I'm happy I was working with someone who was a quick learner.
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December 5, 2010 at 6:11 pm
Don't go for tonnes of plugins. Get ones you really need (like syntax highlighting), add more as the requirements arrive.
I've only got 7 plugins in total.
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability
December 5, 2010 at 6:23 pm
GilaMonster (12/5/2010)
Don't go for tonnes of plugins. Get ones you really need (like syntax highlighting), add more as the requirements arrive.I've only got 7 plugins in total.
These were not for me. I think we ended up with 6 or so at the end. Had to remove 1 that was preventing adding new pages.
It was a good learning experience for doing mine. I'm starting with an "anonymous" one where I can rant and rave and not have to worry about who might read it. Hoping to have a SQL/IT one up shortly after that. With Xmas so close and me going away for Xmas, there won't be much action before January.
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December 5, 2010 at 9:26 pm
:Heavy sigh:
:Bang head on desk:
Just spent 3 hours investigating a "discrepancy" in two reports that should match up. Has to be fixed before Monday. Finally figured out that they were taking the total from one report, and comparing to the wrong line in the second report. Proper line matches up.
User BKAC error.
And I shouldn't have trusted what the user said was a mismatch - I should have verified that she was comparing apples to apples.
Wayne
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes
December 6, 2010 at 5:30 am
Jeff Moden (12/5/2010)
Heh... I found a way around all of the "problems" with WordPress... I write articles on SQL Server instead of blogging. 😛
You may be on the right side of this. I can't get the WordPress upgrade to install automatically. I might have to do it manually. Joy!
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt
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SQL Server Query Performance Tuning
December 6, 2010 at 5:32 am
GilaMonster (12/5/2010)
Don't go for tonnes of plugins. Get ones you really need (like syntax highlighting), add more as the requirements arrive.I've only got 7 plugins in total.
I'm running with 4 currently. I'll probably add a fifth after I get the upgrade done, assuming I'm not switching providers. GoDaddy is still messing up my URLs.
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt
Author of:
SQL Server Execution Plans
SQL Server Query Performance Tuning
December 6, 2010 at 6:07 am
Grant Fritchey (12/6/2010)
Jeff Moden (12/5/2010)
Heh... I found a way around all of the "problems" with WordPress... I write articles on SQL Server instead of blogging. 😛You may be on the right side of this. I can't get the WordPress upgrade to install automatically. I might have to do it manually. Joy!
Went on for me without a glitch, couple seconds no more.
Could it be security setting on the folder? I had that at previous host, whatever credentials wordpress was using did not have permission to write to the folders it was stored in. I had to do all upgrades (wordpress and plugins) manually.
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability
December 6, 2010 at 6:26 am
Grant Fritchey (12/6/2010)
GilaMonster (12/5/2010)
Don't go for tonnes of plugins. Get ones you really need (like syntax highlighting), add more as the requirements arrive.I've only got 7 plugins in total.
I'm running with 4 currently. I'll probably add a fifth after I get the upgrade done, assuming I'm not switching providers. GoDaddy is still messing up my URLs.
GoDaddy has a history of screwing with URLs and DNS in general coupled with horrible customer/tech support.
I tend to avoid them like the plague.
-Luke.
December 6, 2010 at 6:31 am
Has anyone tried to host a blog via Comcast.net?
I tried to set up Blosxom through them and was unable to make it work due to Comcast's policies on website scripts. I was thinking of going to WordPress, but I'm half-sure it won't work properly due to the same reason.
December 6, 2010 at 6:39 am
Luke L (12/6/2010)
Grant Fritchey (12/6/2010)
GilaMonster (12/5/2010)
Don't go for tonnes of plugins. Get ones you really need (like syntax highlighting), add more as the requirements arrive.I've only got 7 plugins in total.
I'm running with 4 currently. I'll probably add a fifth after I get the upgrade done, assuming I'm not switching providers. GoDaddy is still messing up my URLs.
GoDaddy has a history of screwing with URLs and DNS in general coupled with horrible customer/tech support.
I tend to avoid them like the plague.
-Luke.
Well, I might start avoiding them shortly. I'm giving them a fair shot & then I'm pulling the plug.
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt
Author of:
SQL Server Execution Plans
SQL Server Query Performance Tuning
December 6, 2010 at 7:49 am
Luke L (12/6/2010)
Grant Fritchey (12/6/2010)
GilaMonster (12/5/2010)
Don't go for tonnes of plugins. Get ones you really need (like syntax highlighting), add more as the requirements arrive.I've only got 7 plugins in total.
I'm running with 4 currently. I'll probably add a fifth after I get the upgrade done, assuming I'm not switching providers. GoDaddy is still messing up my URLs.
GoDaddy has a history of screwing with URLs and DNS in general coupled with horrible customer/tech support.
I tend to avoid them like the plague.
-Luke.
I stay away from GoDaddy because of their commercials. To me, they scream "We don't actually know what we're doing and we're hoping you don't either."
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December 6, 2010 at 8:13 am
Stefan Krzywicki (12/6/2010)
Luke L (12/6/2010)
Grant Fritchey (12/6/2010)
GilaMonster (12/5/2010)
Don't go for tonnes of plugins. Get ones you really need (like syntax highlighting), add more as the requirements arrive.I've only got 7 plugins in total.
I'm running with 4 currently. I'll probably add a fifth after I get the upgrade done, assuming I'm not switching providers. GoDaddy is still messing up my URLs.
GoDaddy has a history of screwing with URLs and DNS in general coupled with horrible customer/tech support.
I tend to avoid them like the plague.
-Luke.
I stay away from GoDaddy because of their commercials. To me, they scream "We don't actually know what we're doing and we're hoping you don't either."
Based on my limited experience, that quote rings very true. Imagine working for a week to try and find someone with enough knowledge/authority to remove my mail server from their Spam list. Not that we were sending spam, but that our mail server was on the same Class C as a dynamically assigned IPs (read dialup users) even though we had leased a subnet of static ips from our ISP. The people we were talking to couldn't/wouldn't comprehend that you'd need a subnet smaller than a class C so just blocked the whole subnet and then didn't understand that you could block a small subnet instead of the entire thing. To add insult to injury, since our ISP was unable to convince them they were mis-managing their spam filters, our ISP moved us to a different netblock of fully static IPs and they still continued to block mail from our domain. In order to send mail to our clients who were hosting their mail on a godaddy domain, we needed to relay mail via another SMTP server. We needed to configure his for each client we came across that was hosted on GoDaddy since we preferred to send mail directly from our mail servers as it helped with SPF and other issues.
They were completely unwilling to listen to us or our ISP because we weren't thier customers, even though it was their customers which were having problems due to their over restrictive/improperly implemented Spam filtering.
-Luke.
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