FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.
Software engineering is the study and an application of engineering to the software development lifecycle, including requirements, design, architecture, development, testing, and maintenance. It is important that Universities teach students not only the theory underlying these phases, but also allow students to practice using real systems.
Quoting Arie van Deursen:
When teaching software engineering [architecture] it is hard to strike the right balance between practice (learning how to work with real systems and painful trade offs) and theory (general solutions that any architect needs to thoroughly understand).
To address this, inspired by TUDelft's Software Architecture course, we decided try something different in the Software Engineering course of the University of Porto's [Master in
| # If you are using the MySQL 5.6 version of mysqldump on an older MySQL database, you might get the error message. | |
| mysqldump: Couldn't execute 'SELECT @@GTID_MODE': Unknown system variable 'GTID_MODE' (1193) | |
| # This error is in part due to the introduction of Global Transaction Identifiers (GTIDs) in MySQL 5.6. GTIDs make it simple to # track and compare replication across a master-slave topology. | |
| # mysqldump tries to query this system variable, which doesn’t exist in earlier versions, and then fails. The solution is to add # –set-gtid-purged=OFF in the mysqldump command. It should look something like | |
| mysqldump -h dbHost -u dbuser dbName --set-gtid-purged=OFF |
