Reading StackOverflow XML Dump to MySQL Database

StackOverflow data is available for free. To play with the XML data dump, you must insert it into MySQL database. This report shows you how. This article is not for beginners. To follow this article, you should have the StackOverflow … Continue reading

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Download StackOverflow – XML dump under CC-by-sa license (torrent link)

StackOverflow is the leading programmers question and answer site. Now you can legally download their whole database as XML. Download StackOverflow database dump (4.9 GB 7z torrent, contains all StackExchange sites until Dec 2011) StackOverlow blog links to Clear-bits (in … Continue reading

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Change MySQL Password on Ubuntu – dpkg-reconfigure mysql-server-5.1

Update: Fix forgotten MariaDB password on Ubuntu 18.04 and newer. Update: This method does not work on Ubuntu 16.04, and I have not tested it with newer versions either. Forgot MySQL server root password? It’s trivial to change it in … Continue reading

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