David Berube

David Berube is a freelance Ruby on Rails developer and MySQL performance consultant. He specializes in maintaining legacy systems. He authored the books “Practical Rails Gems” and “Practical Reporting with Ruby and Rails”, and co-authored the book “Practical Rails Plugins," and he’s written for venues like Dr. Dobb’s Journal, Linux Pro Magazine, and IBM DeveloperWorks. Website: berubeconsulting.com

Character Sets: Migrating to utf8mb4 with pt_online_schema_change

Modern applications often feature the use of data in many different languages. This is often true even of applications that only offer a user facing interface in a single language. Many users may, for...

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