‘MyTAP is a unit testing framework for MySQL 5.x written using fuctions and procedures. It includes a collection of TAP-emitting assertion functions, as well as the ability to integrate with other TAP-emitting test frameworks.’

Useful stuff.

‘OurDelta produces enhanced builds for MySQL 5.0 and builds for MariaDB 5.1, on common production platforms.’

UTF-8 everywhere!

Fascinating approach, turning an RDBMS into a document database of sorts.

Arbitrary constraints are daft (especially with multi-byte encodings).

Sounds like something we could use.

Useful hints.

Set of MySQL command-line tools.

Rails's MySQL binding implementation ‘leads to quadratic memory use’; here’s a patch.