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Getting Update Times On The DB Server - MySQL4

Posted by: barbara | Date: Nov 06, 2009 | Category: mysql November Post-A-Day python | Comments: 0

Here's the MySQL4 version of the script I posted yesterday. On the MySQL4 server, we don't have that handy INFORMATION_SCHEMA db for reference - instead, we have to get table information using 

SHOW TABLE STATUS
. The biggest difference between the two scripts is that this one requires a ...

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Getting Update Times On The DB Server - MySQL5

Posted by: barbara | Date: Nov 05, 2009 | Category: mysql November Post-A-Day python | Comments: 0

Here's another utility script that I use to check on replication to one of our slave db servers. This probably bears some explanation - a few months ago, replication stopped for no apparent reason (at least no reason that was apparent to the developers - our SA either didn't know ...

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Installing Django with MySQL on Mac OS X

Posted by: barbara | Date: Jun 04, 2008 | Category: django mac os x mysql python | Comments: 10
Django's official installation instructions are here:

http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/install/

However, they get a little vague around the section titled "Get your database running".

I followed this post and, aside from a few missing notes, got the Django/MySQL install done in about 15 ...

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