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Open Source BI Report tools
I am going to take a mulligan on a previous Blog Post on Open Source BI reporting tools. Part of my job at Calpont is getting familiar with tools folks with use with the InfiniDB storage engine. After...
View ArticleMySQL Workbench 5.2.26 GA Available
We’re happy to announce the release of MySQL Workbench 5.2.26. This is the first maintenance release for 5.2 GA (Generally Available). We have fixed a number of bugs and made some improvements under...
View ArticleWhy GRANT ALL is bad
A common observation for many LAMP stack products is the use of poor MySQL security practices. Even for more established products such as Wordpress don’t always assume that the provided documentation...
View ArticleScalar type hints in PHP trunk
So in my blog series I try to cover all additions to PHP trunk so I have to mention scalar type hints. <?php function print_float(float $f) { echo $f."\n"; } for ($i = 1; $i < 5; $i++) {...
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How to: rotate wordpress posts into headline/feature status
If you’re using the new Arthemia theme for WordPress you might notice that there are two areas of the theme that can have articles promoted to; namely Headline and Featured sections. This is controlled...
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MySQL Cluster on Windows - NDB API part 3 - The code
If you followed this series on Windows programing with NDB API on Windows, you should now have a reasonable MySQL Cluster with NDB API setup. And if you are not following it, and think that the binary...
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The number of Hadoop jobs continue to rise
While still a small fraction1 of data management job postings, the number of job posts that mention "hadoop" continue to grow steadily. Year-over-year, there were 300% more such job posts2 in the first...
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Redmine with MariaDB
I'm in the process of setting up Redmine (version 1.0-stable) on an Ubuntu 8.04 virtual machine. Getting a recent enough gem and rails is less fun than you might imagine, but the big issue I came...
View Article1.5.3 Community Release Now Available
We are pleased to announce the availability of the 1.5.3 release of InfiniDB Community Edition. This is our first maintenance release for 1.5.This release includes a number of bug fixes that you can...
View ArticleUpcoming MySQL Conferences
Unlike previous years when the number of conferences with MySQL content diminishes after the O’Reilly MySQL and OSCON conferences (Open SQL Camp excluded), this year has a lot on offer. This month:...
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The golden age of open source?
Stephen O’Grady and Simon Phipps have both recently published interesting posts on the current state of open source, with Stephen pondering the relative growth of open source and Simon wondering...
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MySQL Sunday at Oracle Open World
Looks like Oracle is continuing to invest heavily in MySQL and the storage engine eco-system. They've announced a full MySQL Sunday at the upcoming Oracle Open World Sunday September 19, in San...
View Articlelibdrizzle in Visual Studio
Thanks to Jobin's work with mingw and getting libdrizzle to compile on Windows at all, I have been able to get it working in Visual Studio natively. The code is in trunk now.The approach I took, which...
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Be Careful While Using UNSIGNED Data Type in the Routine Body, Part 2
In one of our posts, in the Be Careful While Using UNSIGNED Data Type in the Routine Body one, we’ve explained how to get invalid data in routine body when using UNSIGNED data type and that in this...
View ArticleTable refactoring & application version upgrades, Part I
A developer’s major concern is: How do I do application & database upgrades with minimal downtime? How do I synchronize between a DB’s version upgrade and an application’s version upgrade? I will...
View ArticleSeeking talks for the MySQL stream at the UKOUG Conference in Birmingham...
Similar to events in the US and Germany, another large Oracle User Group organization is preparing for their annual conference and would like to set up a dedicated track of sessions about MySQL – this...
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Installing A Web, Email And MySQL Database Cluster (Mirror) On Debian 5.0...
Installing A Web, Email And MySQL Database Cluster (Mirror) On Debian 5.0 With ISPConfig 3 This tutorial describes the installation of a clustered Web, Email, Database and DNS server to be used for...
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451 CAOS Links 2010.08.10
Compliance. Funding. Financial results. Copyright assignment. And more. Follow 451 CAOS Links live @caostheory on Twitter and Identi.ca “Tracking the open source news wires, so you don’t have to.”...
View ArticleTeradata quietly scoops up Kickfire
Data warehousing vendor Teradata has quietly scooped up Kickfire, a startup analytic appliance vendor known for its use of the open-source MySQL database and a SQL processing chip to boost query...
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simple python, mysql connection and iteration
If you’ve been looking for a simple python script to use with MySQL that you can use to expand upon for your next project, check this one out. It has error handling for the connection, error handling...
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