MySQL Stored Procedure, NAME_CONST, and Character Sets

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 07:12:35 +0000

For a Project I had helped work on, they recently needed to move servers and in the process upgraded from MySQL 5.0 to MySQL 5.1.41. They ran into some quirks with 5.1 and I thought I would document our work-a-rounds for them.

We were having serious performance problems with a Stored Procedure that would be called by a Windows Client on thousands of machines. Before on 5.0 it would take under 0.02 seconds, and now it was taking 25-35 seconds. In this stored procedure we would call a query something like this:

EA - Lack of Quality & Out of Touch

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:04:30 +0000

An article posted on Slashdot just set me off today. Custom PC reports a quote from EA’s CEO, John Riccitiello, about DRM & their recent games:

‘We implemented a form of DRM and it’s something that 99.8 per cent of users wouldn’t notice,’ claimed Riccitiello, ‘but for the other 0.2 percent, it became an issue and a number of them launched a cabal online to protest against it.’ The use of SecuROM in EA’s recent PC games, including Spore, Mass Effect and Crysis Warhead, has caused a lot of controversy on the Internet, resulting in hundreds of one-star reviews on Amazon.

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MySQL Stored Procedure, NAME_CONST, and Character Sets

EA - Lack of Quality & Out of Touch