Chapter 5Keyless Entry
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
“Bill, it looks like two managers have reserved the same server in our lab for the same days—how can this happen?” the testing lab manager burst into my cube. “Can you take a look into this and get it fixed? They’re screaming at me that they both need the equipment and that I’m holding up their project schedule.”
I designed an equipment-tracking application some years ago using MySQL. The default storage engine for MySQL was MyISAM, which doesn’t support foreign key constraints. The database had many logical relationships but could not enforce referential integrity.
As the project evolved and ...
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