{"id":1214,"date":"2008-12-12T21:40:59","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T02:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2008-12-12T21:42:27","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T02:42:27","slug":"mysql-in-a-small-town-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/12\/12\/mysql-in-a-small-town-cafe","title":{"rendered":"MySQL in a small town cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/ditesh.gathani.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/12\/a-tale-of-two-cities\/\">Ditesh<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nInteresting aside: the bus stopped in a ${RANDOM} town in Johor for food, and at the cashier, I spotted the cashier using <a href=\"http:\/\/kcpos.co.uk\/\">KC POS<\/a> which had a prominent \u201cPowered by MySQL\u201d text and the Sakila logo. Very cool!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was a small town coffee shop, using a cash register, powered by the mighty Sakila. Similar to the chain of restaurants, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/03\/point-of-sale-systems-and-their-back-ends\">Old Town White Coffee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The whole blog post from Ditesh itself is interesting, but knowing you can find MySQL just about anywhere, showing the ubiquity of the database, just makes you proud to know, you work at\/on\/with MySQL.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20MySQL%20in%20a%20small%20town%20cafe&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F12%2F12%2Fmysql-in-a-small-town-cafe&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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