Tag: mysql

MySQL Fails to Update on Ubuntu

MySQL Fails to Update on Ubuntu

So your Ubuntu server doesn’t want to upgrade MySQL usingĀ apt-get and fails with the following error? mysql_upgrade: Got error: 1045: Access denied for user ‘debian-sys-maint’@’localhost’ (using password: YES) while connecting to the MySQL server Upgrade process encountered error and will not continue. Thankfully the fix should be fairly easy to carry out. For some reason …

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MySQL Replication on Ubuntu with DRBD

MySQL Replication on Ubuntu with DRBD

I’ve been looking around for some easy and open-source ways to handle database replication for a handful of small but important MySQL databases. A few options were viable but usually included too many config changes for things like creating a new database. DRDB on a Linux server seems to be one of the fastest and …

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Installing a Windows Dev Box

Installing a Windows Dev Box

In the interest of saving this for future reference, here’s is a general how-to for installing a Windows based Web development server. The reason for running up a Windows server as opposed to the typical LAMP alternative on Windows was due to frustration. The older Ubuntu server I had just made it very difficult to …

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