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Article:		Rolling with Ruby on Rails
Subject:		Database snag
Date:		2005-02-02 11:02:19
From:		OlleJonsson

If you, like me, are using the free Control Center (CC) application that comes from the fine people at MySQL AB, the default for an `INT` field is 11 bytes, not 6. I somehow got the sizes of the database field mismatched when I followed the tutorial, and when the Recipe and the Category were trying to shake hands they were unable to find each other. But, after I edited the `id` column to a standard size of 6 bytes to the INT, my data disappeared from the tables. I must have hit some button, the application could not be that unstable. No harm done, after I added the data agagin, the tables/objects found each other like a charm. Now when I try and find the link to the CC application, it seems it has evolved into the MySQL Administrator (which is also released under the GPL), which is a 4.7 mb download from MySQL's developer page for downloads. Man! It looks slick. OK, that was my 2 cents. OK, now I gotta get into the study tasks before Part 2 of this tutorial is released! Keep up the great work, Curt.

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