Column Comments in MySQL

By Colleen, on January 12th, 2009%

A while back I was lamenting that table comments in MySQL  get overlooked, and did a post on it, both how to create them, how to update them, and how to view them.  The fact that my table comment post remains quite popular indicates that mySQL hasn’t SEO’d their pages on it thoroughly enough, and people are obviously looking for information on it. So… I thought I should follow with a column comment post. As a matter of fact in mySQL you can also comment at the column level, and probably should whenever the function of a field is not obvious.
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How to create and maintain table comments in MySQL

By Colleen, on August 7th, 2008%

How to create, see and update table comments so your database scheme is somewhat self documenting . . . → Read More: How to create and maintain table comments in MySQL

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Move over Dilbert…. uh… (sort of)

By Colleen, on March 23rd, 2008%


I was just surfing around the startupalooza website for who’s coming to Portland and I ran across the toonlet site. I remember writing a Mr. Potato head stack in Hypercard many years ago and it was a lot of fun. I’d seen others as well, desktop toys for Windoze and Mac, all along the same line. Well, toonlet lets you give them moods and write captions and publish them for posterity, which is a step further. So I got into toonlet and created Calendargeek, an alterego for myself.
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