rdbms

Tech Source: "A relational database management system (RDBMS) is a DBMS in which data is stored in the form of tables, and the relationship among the data is stored in the form of tables as well."

This year I've decided to enter the EuroWinPHP contest, as I figured it might be interesting to learn a bit more about how PHP works on Windows.

I originally started using it there, back in around 2002, running early versions of Apache 1.3 and PHP 4.1 on Windows 98 and 2000.

These days, though, I'm running IIS7 and PHP 5.3.2, and have a bit more knowledge of how the bits fit together, though since I've been running Linux for the last 5 years I'm a little out of touch.

From CatsWhoCode.com there's a new tutorial looking at some of the basics of using CouchDB with PHP (the popular NoSQL database).

They don't cover the install of CouchDB, so you'll need to have that up and running to follow along.

Jeremy Cook has put together a quick guide for something that can be tricky when using PDO in PHP - handling binary data in the return from your queries.

Wrapup of the PHP UK Conference 2010. Uploaded slides of my talk "RDBMS in the social networks age" about graphs in the database.

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