MySQL: order a string column as an integer

If you order a string column that contains only numeric values with MySQL, it will order them as string values, e.g.: 1, 10, 100, 2, 3, 31, 32, 4, etc. If you want to order them as if they were an integer, cast them in the order by clause.

MySQL error can’t open file – errno: 24

After some maintenance was done to the virtual host server that one of my virtual servers was running on that required a host reboot, my websites weren’t running due to the MySQL error "[ERROR] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Can’t open file: ‘./databasename/tablename.frm’ (errno: 24)"