The company I work for has no idea or concept of how their website works. They have no idea of the importance of regular back ups and optimisation of the database and removing deleted products from the system to free space up in the database. They keep telling me that these products need to stay on even when they are sold and I keep saying please look after your database.
The only language they understand is £ £ £ and thats it. Trouble is no one is listening to me.
I would like to throw some figures at the them. I would like to know how much it would cost them for a MYSQL expert to come in and repair a corrupt table full of thousands of clients details and products. I would like to know why it is important to keep MYSQL maintaind and optimised. I need an experts view, so I can print it off and show them.
Secondly for my own peice of mind I back up the database every single evening without fail. What I do to test it is upload to my own server at home through phpmyadmin. When all the tablkes appear and records I presume that it is ok? What do you do to test?
The only language they understand is £ £ £ and thats it. Trouble is no one is listening to me.
I would like to throw some figures at the them. I would like to know how much it would cost them for a MYSQL expert to come in and repair a corrupt table full of thousands of clients details and products. I would like to know why it is important to keep MYSQL maintaind and optimised. I need an experts view, so I can print it off and show them.
Secondly for my own peice of mind I back up the database every single evening without fail. What I do to test it is upload to my own server at home through phpmyadmin. When all the tablkes appear and records I presume that it is ok? What do you do to test?