PayPal & decisions on acceptable use

As you may know Open Query uses PayPal for some of its financial transactions. I filed the following question with PayPal support. Note that with this question I regard it as completely immaterial whether one supports of Julien Assange or WikiLeaks actions or not. Naturally companies have the right to choose which clients to serve, [...]

Cache pre-loading on mysqld startup

The following quirky dynamic SQL will scan each index of each table so that they’re loaded into the key_buffer (MyISAM) or innodb_buffer_pool (InnoDB). If you also use the PBXT engine which does have a row cache but no clustered primary key, you could also incorporate some full table scans. To make mysqld execute this on [...]