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How to Connect PHP With MySQL

When it comes to building interactive, scalable, and data-driven websites and applications, you may consider a combination of PHP with MySQL. Integrating PHP as a server-side language with MySQL as a relational database allows for dynamic content generation, user authentication, form handling, and easier data management. In the article, we’ll explore several methods to connect PHP with a MySQL database, including the mysqli and PDO (PHP Data Objects) extensions.

SQL Server Backup Types and Key Concepts

The importance of regular database backup and recovery can be neither underestimated nor ignored. And since your data is subject to modification, the primary task is to ensure its safety and mitigate the risks of data loss. That’s why we have database backups at hand—and in this article, we’ll guide you through main types and key concepts of backups as related to SQL Server databases.

GitLens Community vs. Pro: Which Edition is Right for You?

Whether you’re reviewing code changes, managing pull requests, or exploring your project’s history, GitLens elevates your Git experience directly in VS Code. In this video, we’ll dive into the features of GitLens Community and Pro editions, helping you find the best fit for your workflow.

Add global beforeEach / afterEach hooks using Playwright automatic fixtures

Join Stefan Judis, Checkly's Playwright ambassador, as he shows you how to make your end-to-end testing life easier using Playwright's automatic fixtures. Learn how to implement global "beforeEach" and "afterEach" test hooks to add runtime annotation and JavaScript exception monitoring without repeating yourself across spec files.

How Do the Templates in SQL Prompt Enable Team Collaboration - Frank Geisler

Frank Geisler, CEO of GDS Business Intelligence GmbH, explains how the templates in SQL prompt enable team collaboration. SQL Prompt enables users to write high quality SQL faster. As well as autocompleting your code, SQL Prompt takes care of formatting, object renaming, and other distractions, so you can concentrate on how the code actually works..

Demo Roundups! Automation Standardization (Workflows)

Join PagerDuty’s Solutions Consultants Bobby Zimmerman and Justyn Roberts to discover how combining technical automation with human-driven processes can reduce manual interventions, streamline repetitive tasks, and increase operational efficiency. Level up your digital operations expertise with PagerDuty Demo Roundups — a series of live, interactive webinars where you can deepen your knowledge in the Operations Cloud and see how PagerDuty can work for you. Each 1-hour session presents a hands-on demo that showcases PagerDuty’s capabilities in real-time followed by Q&A.

Grafana release cycle: end-of-year update

It’s been another big year for Grafana. In April, we unveiled Grafana 11.0 at GrafanaCon 2024, which introduced a queryless experience with Explore Metrics and custom visualizations with Canvas panels. Since then, we’ve made improvements to data sources and visualizations in our minor releases, and just last month the 11.3 release marked the general availability of Scenes-powered dashboards.

Visualize real-time CAN-to-USB data via custom Grafana dashboards and the MQTT plugin

Martin Falch, co-owner and head of sales and marketing at CSS Electronics, is an expert on CAN bus data. Martin works closely with end users, typically OEM engineers, across diverse industries (automotive, heavy-duty, maritime, industrial). He is passionate about data visualization and has been spearheading the integration of the CANedge/CANmod with Grafana dashboards through various data sources.