This is more of a SQL provider independent way of doing the deletes
but MySQL’s IN subselect statement performance is less than fantastic.
We need to avoid these like the plague.

[ENSCORESW-822]. BiotypeManager decommissioned in favour of Biotype manager directly talking to the production db.

* dev:
  annual copyright update for 2014
  update contact details

Having to fix the problems with OperonTranscriptAdaptor and OperonAdaptor. We must have the columns for dates in the bind variables not in the explicit binds

Merge branch 'experimental/db-portability/master' of https://github.com/Anacode/ensembl into Anacode-experimental/db-portability/master

an empty additional suffix for backup as otherwise the $file
command was being mistaken for part of the sed replace

New test for valid foreign keys in InnoDB applications. foreign_keys.sql cleaned. Tabs assassinated.

HGNC data URI updated
MIM/MIM2GENE data URI ftp server changed

This reverts commit 856a5aa2.

…probably due to autoinc handling in the test rather than module errors.

This is only really required to keep t/dbConnection.t happy on
SQLite, since many connection parameters are undef and need to
be restored to undef after testing the accessor method.