Comments on: Earthquake!

By: MDA

MDA — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:14:58 +0000

We were doing numeric sorting on values in a text column. The method I was talking about at the time was:

ORDER BY meta_value + 0

It makes the query less efficient, but means you get numeric sorting instead of alphabetical sorting (not sure if those are the correct terms).

You can also try using CAST() or CONVERT(). They might actually be a bit faster.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/cast-functions.html

By: se

se — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:42:23 +0000

hey, so …. did you guys ever finish the conversation about ORDER BY meta_values? it IS tricker than at first glance! Lemme know!

By: hoh

hoh — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:33:32 +0000

i’ve been told to stand under a doorway as that’s structurally the strongest. is this outdated info?!
glad you durvived the experience – the wordpress community needs you!

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:06:59 +0000

And why did this have to happen just AFTER I left?? You lot get all the fun…

By: Dixie

Dixie — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:10:03 +0000

I quaketweeted, but that was as far as I went. The thing that spooked me was that we could feel it in the sub-basement. It’s pretty stable down here; I’ve felt earthquakes up on the surface and higher, but not here.

The doorjamb in my office was being occupied by TWO coworkers, so I hung out under a desk. I’m not sure it would have stood up to the BI falling onto it, but luckily I didn’t find out for sure.

It was definitely the strongest earthquake I’ve experienced here. I now feel I can emigrate having gotten the entire LA experience.

By: MDA

MDA — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:11:50 +0000

Jill, glad all is well!

gv, let the record show that I spent 20 minutes getting our router to let me see apparenthorizons, commenting on apparenthorizons, and checking to make sure nothing had exploded in your room before quakeblogging :)

By: gv

gv — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:26:35 +0000

For the record, apparenthorizons quakeblogged, like, 20 minutes before blogwaffe.

By: Jill

Jill — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:23:30 +0000

It was pretty exciting here, too. T got under his desk and I stood in the door jam of his room. Afterward, we got the hard hats out in case another one came and talked to parents on the phone and read all about it on the internet.