Central Virginia MySQL Meetup has reached cruising altitude
The first Central Virginia MySQL Meetup was a nice little howdy-do, and as a test flight, I think it showed that the bird can get off the ground quite nicely. So, with the generous help of our meeting...
View ArticleMySQL command line vs. visual editors - reflections
My previous post drew some attention, and in particular two comments I wish to relate to. I also wish to make a more fine-grained observation on visual editors. One comment is by Peter Laursen, who...
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More on using the commandline vs. Visual editors
Shlomi Noach has made a couple of posts (here and here) on Visual Editors vs. commandline for MySQL working with SQL statements. All in all, I tend to agree with him in many respects, but I am...
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Cleanup old options!
In various discussions I have expressed that I think that there are way too many options and variables in MySQL (and it gets worse for every new release). There are simply too many to know and remember...
View ArticleContinuent Partners With VNC To Collaborate in DACH
Continuent is increasing its presence in Europe to offer our solutions and services for the open source database business sector in the region. VNC is Continuent's new partner in Germany, Austria and...
View ArticleVerifying backup integrity with CHECK TABLES
An attendee to Espen’s recent webinar asked how to check tables for corruption. This kind of ties into my recent post on InnoDB’s handling of corrupted pages, because the best way to check for...
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See you in Austin March 6th at Society for Information Technoligy and Teacher...
I will be in Austin for SITE presenting Teaching Database Concepts with Open Source Software on Wednesday, March 6th. So if you are a teacher attending SITE, please come attend my session. And bring...
View ArticleScreencast: Installing MariaDB
Instead of the usual text-heavy blog posts that appear here, I thought it would be fun to mix things up and do a screencast showing exactly how easy it is to upgrade MySQL to MariaDB: Some notes: The...
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Basic ETL with Gearman and MySQL in a few lines of PHP code
Gearman is awesome. If you do not know what it is, its a queue and load balancing system for an arbitrary number of workers which enables distributed computing across many nodes. Some of the same guys...
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One SchoonerSQL node is equavalent to 9 Clustrix nodes
Percona recently evaluated the performance of Clustrix appliances by running tpcc-mysql benchmark at a scale factor of 5000 warehouse. Based on Percona’s blog, each Clustrix appliance node comprises of...
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MySQL[plus] awards 2011 final results ! (and a story)
Let me tell you a very touching story about these awards. As I said in the comments : Sometimes we think about something and the next minute we did it… And it exactly what happened, I took my...
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MySQL Conference and Expo Talk on Benchmarking
I’ll be speaking on April 11th at 4:30 pm in Room 4 in at the Percona Conference and Expo Talk. The topic will be “Creating a Benchmark Infrastructure That Just Works.” Throughout my career I’ve been...
View ArticleResolving the bison.exe m4 Invalid argument Error when building...
If you’ve tried compiling MySQL/MariaDB/XtraDB from source code on Windows, you may have run into the following error: C:\GnuWin32\bin\bison.exe: m4: Invalid argument Now, it is a known bug to receive...
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Last chance to take part in our MySQL/NoSQL/NewSQL survey
Thanks to everyone who has already taken part in our survey exploring changing attitudes to MySQL following its acquisition by Oracle and examining the competitive dynamic between MySQL and other...
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Collaborate 2012 Registration is Now Open!
http://collaborate12.ioug.org Double Down at COLLABORATE 12- The IOUG Forum with Two Ways to Save- and a Chance to Win! The user-driven Oracle event of the year is fast-approaching, and IOUG wants...
View ArticleMore details about SchoonerSQL performance, please!
Schooner has a blog post showing that one node of their product beats 9 nodes of Clustrix’s in throughput. But this reduces everything to a single number, and that’s not everything that matters. If...
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Collaborate 2012 MySQL Sessions
Collaborate 2012 MySQL Sessions Please mark you calendars for the MySQL sessions at Collaborate this April in Las Vegas. Date Session ID Session Details Track Sun. Apr. 22 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm 9390 The...
View ArticleLog Buffer #257, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
With new year many new projects, new technologies, new frameworks and new ideas are springing up at the speed of light and bloggers in the database arena are keeping up with this pace and this Log...
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Event scheduler in MySQL 5.1
I just recently used Event scheduler which was the major feature in MySQL 5.1 version. Its very much similar to the linux crontab functionality. MySQL Event is nothing but a bunch of statements which...
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