My good friend and former colleague, Harrie Verveer, recently posted a tutorial over on techPortal on Database Version Control. Click on in, I’ll tell you why I think you should read it.

In Open Source projects, the new shiny is NoSQL databases. Everywhere I look there are more and more projects deploying them and with great results. However, in corporate teams, the adoption rate is slower. Come on in, let’s take a look at at least one developer’s decision process, and the conclusion he came to.

There are gargantuan amounts of data that organizations are storing thanks to the advent of really cheap storage. To cope with this, organizations end up buying bigger and bigger database servers/clusters. But maybe, just maybe, there’s a shortcut. This coming Thursday (July 22nd) Zend is having a webinar with InfoBright looking at how a columnar databases can help deal with analytical data requests on large amounts of data.

API for managing nested sets of data stored in a database. NestedSetDbTable class extends Zend_Db_Table_Abstract, to provide custom functionality for working with database tables that has hierarchical data in them data.

Yesterday, I performed an upgrade to a third-party package used with Zend Developer Zone. It has an automated schema update system which silently performs actions on the database that had a large impact on ZDZ and related sites causing an outage. So, there are good lessons from my post-mortem that I would like to share with the community.

On Rdavid.net there’s a post with the results from some tests run on hos much memory the Zend Framework and Doctrine used both with and without the APC caching.

A review of the book Mastering phpMyAdmin 3.1 for Effective MySQL Management by Marc Delisle.

PHP Abstract has a new episode! This time I’m talking with Paul Tomlinson about Torpor, a new ORM persistence abstraction layer for PHP. He talks about the reasons behind making this new layer, and how it’s features compare to other similar solutions.

Presenting the latest edition of The ZendCon Sessions. The podcast that rebroadcasts sessions/talks from the last ZendCon PHP Conference. This episode of The ZendCon Sessions was recorded live at ZendCon 2008 in Santa Clara, CA and features Wez Furlong giving his talk: “PDO: PHP Data Objects”

On Oren Solomianik’s blog, he describes how to create a browser based database admin with the power of Zend_Db_Table and a few lines of code.