ISBNDB
Free book database
Xbase file format
xbase file format spec
Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
google white paper on their BigTable distrubuted database system
Freebase
Dr Nic » Magic Multi-Connections: A “facility in Rails to talk to more than one database at a time”
Revolution On Rails: ActsAsWithReadonly to support read-only DB slave databases
me talking out loud: "getting" joins
a good explaination of SQL joins
MDB Tools - Unlocking Your Data
tools and libraries for working with MDB files and data outside of MSAccess
Open Library (Open Library)
Joyeur: Quick wins with MySQL
performance tips fro mysql
Amazon Dynamo: The Next Generation Of Virtual Distributed Storage
Robby on Rails : Master/Slave Databases with Ruby on Rails
send writes to the master db, reads to one or more slaves
assert_efficient_sql - O'Reilly Ruby
rails plugin that can detect inefficient queries in test cases
UNdata
Drizzle: Rethinking the MySQL Database Kernel | Linux Magazine
A nice summary of Drizzle
Sphinx: Search Outside the Box | Linux Magazine
nice clear intro to Sphinx by Jeremy Zawodny
MySQL :: MySQL 5.0 Reference Manual :: 9.1.4 Connection Character Sets and Collations
Propel
PHP5 ORM
Doctrine - PHP Object Relational Mapper
Derivante » PHP ActiveRecord with PHP 5.3
dORM - PHP ORM (Object Relational Mapper)
Rails + PHP sharing the same session
ruckusing - Google Code
php based database migration suite
kohana-migrations - Google Code
MySQL :: A Quick Look at MySQL 5.4
info on some nice changes coming in MySQL 5.4, particuarly subquery optimisations
MySQL :: Unicode and Other Funny Characters
South
database migrations for django
DeadWisdom / Migratory / wiki / Home — bitbucket.org
another db migration tool for django
PragDave: Sharing External ActiveRecord Connections
this doesn't work in modern rails, but it's the same issue I'm dealing with atm
Ryan's Scraps: What's New in Edge Rails: Pessimistic Locking