This morning I had to hunt down Copying a MySQL Database From One Machine to Another in the course of moving a Rails app from a development server to a production server, as I didn’t feel like re-entering a bunch of data (and I hadn’t used data migrations to put the data in the database in the first place).
This just goes to remind me of two things about this career transition:
- There are a zillion things that I know how to do in the Microsoft universe (like copying databases from one server to another) that I need to relearn as I move sideways to a world of other software. This is a cost above and beyond whatever I spend on new hardware and software and directly learning my new core competency.
- Fortunately, it’s all out on the net somewhere, and I’m darned good at hunting things down quickly.
