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From the page: "PHP 6, the next major revision of the popular Web application development language, looms on the horizon and promises many changes. Learn whatâ€s new and whatâ€s obsolete and how to prepare your code for tomorrow. "

a tool that splits a mysqldump into several files (chunks), one file per table

This tool splits a single mysqldump file in several files - one file per table. The idea behind splitting a dump in several files is to be able to import the dump back in parallel processes (see the parallel restore tool below).

a tool that imports the tables in parallel

This tool does a parallel import of tables in mysql. The idea here is that the regular 'mysql < dump' restoration is single process, meaning that you can't utilize other processors, if you have more than one.

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From the page: "The joint study by Emerson and MAIT observes that this figure has more than doubled since the year 2003 when the amount of direct losses due to outages were estimated to be Rs 22,000 crores."

Good article on database optimization

I thought my design skills suck!

From the page: "I read Kevin's Read Line from File article today and thought I would add some sample code I wrote a while back to address a similar task in PHP - How to perform the equivalent of "tail -# filename" in PHP."