Giuseppe Maxia

Sapere, saper fare, fare, far sapere.

(Know your trade, do it well, and advertise.)

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I am the CTO of StarData.it,
a company providing consulting and support
in database business.

Database Analyst and Designer

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Anyone proposing to run Windows on servers should be prepared to explain what they know about servers that Google, Yahoo, and Amazon don't.

Paul Graham 

Speaker at the MySQL Users Conference 2006 in Santa Clara, CA, with a talk about Higher Order MySQL.

Speaker at the MySQL Users Conference 2004 in Orlando, FL.
It was a computer lab session on DBI Idioms.

Speaker at the MySQL Users Conference 2003 in San Jose, CA.
It was a speech about distributed database comparisons, which eventually became an article at SysAdmin.

Something to read:


The Data Charmer (my blog)

PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions)

MySQL Wizardry - Cross tabulations is a tutorial on creating server-side cross tabulations in MySQL.

Generating Database Server-Side Cross Tabulations is an article on SQL pivot tables.

DBSchema::Normalizer is a Perl module to convert MySQL database tables from 1st to 2nd normal form. ( documentation download)

Chess::PGN::Parse is a Perl module to read and parse chess games encoded in Portable Game Notation ( documentation download)

DBI recipes is a collection of recipes to carry out common DBI tasks ( POD version ).

DBIx::SQLCrosstab is a Perl module to create server-side multi level cross tabulation reports. (download)

An article on MySQL installation (in Italian)

my home node at PerlMonks where I wrote some articles on database programming and handling large BLOBs and more ...

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