Log security and log tables.
Accidentially I came across the statement “SHOW GRANTS requires the SELECT privilege for the mysql database.” in MySQL documentation (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/show-grants.html). It is...
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Event scheduler in MySQL 5.1 | Nil Infobin [Digg]
Event scheduler in MySQL 5.1PlanetMySQL Voting: Vote UP / Vote DOWN
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Some guidelines for MySQL security | Nil Infobin [Digg]
Some guidelines for MySQL securityPlanetMySQL Voting: Vote UP / Vote DOWN
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Game Over for NoSQL? Discussing Databases in Online Social Gaming
According to VentureBeat*, games companies raised a record-breaking $1.54 billion in funding last year and social gaming accounted for over half of that. No wonder everyone wants to have a piece of...
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RMOUG Training Days 2012
The Rocky Mountain Oracle User Group ( RMOUG ) Training days are almost here. This year they are going to have a MySQL Oracle ACE Director, Ronald Bradford talk on MySQL Security Essentials. I will...
View ArticleHelp Set the MariaDB 5.6 Roadmap with SkySQL and Monty Program
Part of every SkySQL subscription is paid to Monty Program to fund server development and improved functionality in MariaDB® (which is then sent upstream for inclusion in the MySQL® Server). Thus,...
View ArticleLiveblogging: Performance is Overrated, by Mark Callaghan
Mark Callaghan speaks at the New England Database Summit about how data manageability is more important than performance. Peak performance is thrown out, 95%-98% is important. Variance shouldn't be...
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Forums.MySQL.Com as a gym for mental exercise
The MySQL Forums seem to be have been around forever. There are groups for announcements, performance, InnoDB, Cluster, Replication, Certification, Events, questions in German, partitioning, and just...
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Stripping Comments so Query Cache Works in MariaDB and XtraDB
I recently noticed both MariaDB and XtraDB (not MySQL yet) have a (newer) variable query_cache_strip_comments. This variable is great for those who want to append comments to various queries, but still...
View ArticleOurSQL Episode 77: Removing Evil Queries, part 1
Registration for Percona Live: MySQL Conference and Expo is open! The conference is from Tuesday, April 10th through Thursday, April 12th. Early bird pricing ends March 12th, 2012. Use code PL-pod and...
View ArticleConsistent transactions between storage engines
You may not realize it, but in MariaDB 5.2 and earlier and in MySQL up to version 5.5, START TRANSACTION WITH CONSISTENT SNAPSHOT does not give any guarantees of consistency between different storage...
View ArticleNew MySQL 5.6 Features by Oli Sennhauser
First talk at FOSDEM MySQL Devroom by Oli Sennhauser, of FromDual. Quick notes/liveblog of the talk, plus links from a quick search. New Release Model: starts with at least in beta quality, milestone...
View ArticleSphinx user stories by Stéphane Varoqui
Stephane Varoqui, Field Services SkySQL, Vlad Fedorkov, Director of PS, Sphinx Inc, Christophe Gesche, LAMP Expert, Delcampe, Herve Seignole, Web Architect, Groupe Pierre & Vacances Center Parcs –...
View ArticleMySQL HA reloaded by Ivan Zoratti
MySQL HA reloaded – old tricks and cool new tools to guarantee high availability to your MySQL Servers by Ivan Zoratti of SkySQL. This talk is a little longer, so check out: HA Reloaded – many ways to...
View ArticleMariaDB 5.3 query optimizer by Sergey Petrunia
Sergey Petrunia of the MariaDB project. What exactly is not working in MySQL? MySQL is poor at decision support/analytics. With large datasets you need special disk access strategies. Complex queries...
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How to offload MySQL server with Sphinx by Vladimir Fedorkov
Vladimir Fedorkov of Sphinx. Presentation started out with a very nice presentation of candies to all the audience members. What is Sphinx? Another (C++) daemon on your boxes. Can be queried via API...
View ArticleBuilding simple & complex replication clusters with Tungsten Replicator...
Giuseppe Maxia of Continuent. MySQL replication is single threaded. Multi-master replication is complex with MySQL. Circular replication works but is very fragile. Once you’ve achieved the feat, how do...
View ArticleMySQL Cluster by Ralf Gebhardt
Ralf Gebhardt of SkySQL. Cluster: shared nothing architecture (no single point of failure), synchronous replication between nodes, ACID transactions, row level locking. In-memory storage (some data can...
View ArticleOptimising SQL applications by using client side tools by Mark Riddoch
Mark Riddoch of SkySQL. This was a talk about the future in general. What people would like. Etc. Not about something that exists yet, hence the sparse notes. Trace statements are good for the “why”....
View ArticleMySQL synchronous replication in practice with Galera by Oli Sennhauser
Oli Sennhauser of FromDual. Synchronous multi-master replication with the Galera plugin. Your application connects to the load balancer and it redirects read/write traffic to the various MySQL Galera...
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