17
Nov
Yesterday I attempted to solve alphanumeric sorting in MySQL and failed. (read that article here) I did get close though and had the right concept, just wrong execution. Today, I woke up and had an epiphany...recursion. The problem with recursion is that you have to understand recursion to be able to do recursion...and I don't understand recursion enough to do recursion in MySQL. However with a bit of Chat Gippity back and forth (by which I mean getting it to write what I asked for, getting back about 25% of what I asked for, fixing it and feeding it into…