Tales from the Tech Support Crypt

This post is dedicated to everybody who’s ever worked in tech support. When a packet hits a pocket. http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Some_More_Tech_Support http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Support-Should-Never-Be-Necessary http://thedailywtf.com/articles/radio-wtf-presents-quantity-of-service http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Its-the-Only-Way-to-be-Sure http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Could-You-Explain-Programming-Please http://www.techtales.com/techroom.php     Got any more? Please put them in the comments.

Test data for FULLTEXT searching

MySQL’s FULLTEXT search feature works best when it’s used on a large corpus of text. That is, for best results you need many rows. When the text corpus is too small, full text searching often returns strange results: the indexing process tries to work out common words. If the amount of text being indexed is … Read more