Storing binary data in MySQL with AOLserver

I believe this question has come up before and I've mostly
avoided
putting together a comprehensive answer, but it's come up
again ... how
do you safely round-trip binary data from AOLserver to
MySQL?  Well,
I've gone ahead and wrote up a step-by-step walkthrough and
blogged it:

    Storing binary data in MySQL with AOLserver
    http://dossy.or
g/archives/000218.html

Short of fixing the ns_db interface (which is something I'd
love to see
happen), this should be a reasonably good approach using
today's
AOLserver.

I'm hoping to do more of these kind of blog entries on
AOLserver in
2006.  Any suggestions for what to cover next?

-- Dossy

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your own
    folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on."
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> Any suggestions for what to cover next?
A blog about the relationship between max_connections,
min/max_threads,
number of db connections, required memory and benchmarks
would be nice. I
would like to
learn more on fine-tuning the aolserver.


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