@dominicsayers thanks! I think it’s performance I’m most after at the mo. Back to optimising…

Bloody useless @google has turned off RSS delivery of Alerts. What with them and Twitter, they’re clearly trying to kill off syndication.

@dozykraut fair point. Nothing very sensitive here (well, email addresses, I suppose). But on those terms can any server be ‘trusted’?

@Kevishly will bear that in mind. Glad you’ve got over your lizarditis.

@Suburbman (c) snort with contempt

@jpstacey recently started using DESCRIBE. Hadn’t seen tuner – thanks!

RT @VictorianLondon: Archaeologists in Leicester confirm they are now looking for Richard IV, who did not perform so well at the box office.

@jpstacey current setup agreeably simple – though some queries are getting rather slow. Might be able to improve indexing though.

@jpstacey thanks: that’s very helpful, and confirms my gut suspicion that just moving the db might not be worth it (yet)

Database geeks: would it be worth-the-bother faster to have my 1Gb MySQL in cloud (Amazon RDS/Google SQL), assuming a highish RAM option?