Cloud Computing is an abstract idea to describe services provided on the internet.  These are technology related services, not online services that deal directly with a consumer, like online advice, gaming, or anything that a consumer would interact with.  A cloud is named such because clouds are not physically bound to one form or one size.  A cloud in the computer world is much the same.  It is not set in size and can be easily upgraded or...

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Sometimes if you have a rapidly changing database, you have to do maintenance on tables, but you may not want to keep updating your script to account for new tables and/or columns you create. If this is the case, you have to make your code a little more abstract. MySQL has a few commands that help with this. For instance, if you are replicating a set of databases to another server, and want to make sure the replication is up to date, you could...

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