August 2008
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Log analysis with MySQL
Digging through log files has got to be the least-sexy aspect of web app development. I’ve found that using MySQL makes this process a little less painful and easier to standardize. At the very least, you don’t end up with 5 perl scripts every time you try to analyze a particular piece of data that you can never reuse. Here’s the workflow that I’ve found to work well for...