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Do you have a good backup? Read the following story. Having redundant disk systems (RAID), database replicas and high-availability servers is not enough! More than third of data lost is caused by human mistakes! A good backup procedure is mandatory, with off-site storage of course. Last advice: the procedure must include a full-restore test!

Developers need to implement good error handling procedures in their code. There is nothing more annoying that something like “error 0x4e45ff“. On the other side, reporting too much details to the end user can lead to security threads! Use Google and search for “mysql error and look the cached pages. There are plenty of indexed [...]