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Databases MySQL

Q: Does MySQL support ACID? A: Yes

Ronald Bradford
June 29, 2016

I was recently asked this question by an experienced academic at the NY Oracle Users Group event I presented at. Does MySQL support ACID? (ACID is a set of properties essential for a relational database to perform transactions , i.

Databases MySQL

Common MySQL Scalability Mistakes

Ronald Bradford
October 3, 2010

This week I was one of the presenters at the first Surge Scalability Conference in Baltimore. An event that focused not just on one technology but on what essential tools, technologies and practices system architects need to know about for successfully scaling web applications.