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MySQL Certification Study Group in Austin
It looks like the good folks in Austin are keeping busy:Announcing a new Meetup for The Austin MySQL Meetup Group!What: GeekAustin Fall MySQL Happy HourWhen: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 6:30 PMWhere:...
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Spinn3r is Hiring in San Francisco
Spinn3r is hiring a cool Java engineer here in our San Francisco office. It’s a great position with a super smart bunch of guys. Centrally located right in SOMA (2nd and Howard) and we have an AWESOME...
View ArticleOnline Schema Change for MySQL, part 2
This provides more documentation for Online Schema Change (OSC) beyond part 1. APIThis is an extract from the source code: The OnlineSchemaChange class encapsulates all the steps needed to do online...
View ArticleMaking query cache contention more obvious
The newest release of Percona Server includes a trivial change that I think will be extremely valuable. This is the addition of a new thread state, “Waiting on query cache mutex.” Fixing the query...
View ArticleHaving fun with MySQL and Python: converting MySQL character set to utf8
Lately I worked quite a bit with Python and Linux, writing monitoring and automation utilities. I am in a transition period, so I thought I ought to write some Python stuff interfacing with MySQL for...
View Articleopenark-kit, Facebook Online Schema Change, and thoughts on open source licenses
MySQL@Facebook team have recently published an Online Schema Change code for non blocking ALTER TABLE operations. Thumbs Up! The code is derived from oak-online-alter-table, part of openark-kit, a...
View ArticleMySQL Function to Convert Date To Words
Recently I saw a MySQL Stored Function requirement on Experts-Exchange for converting date into some specific words format. You may find MySQL function for date to words conversion online; even udfs...
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Four short links: 16 September 2010
jsTerm -- ANSI-capable telnet terminal built in HTML5 with Javascript, Websocket, and Node.js. (via waxpancake on Twitter) MySQL EXPLAINer -- visualize the output of the MySQL EXPLAIN command. (via...
View ArticleDBJ: Inside MySQL Binary Logs
MySQL’s binary logs are an important part of a properly functioning database. They facility point-in-time recovery, and allow replication to operation. We dig into these files, and look at what’s...
View ArticleSales en: FromDual plans Advanced MySQL DBA Workshop
With one of its partners FromDual plans to offer an Advanced MySQL DBA Workshop. The first workshop should run in November 2010. To offer the best possible contents to the participants we want your...
View ArticleFantastic VoltDB presentation (video and slides available) by Tim Callaghan...
Special thanks t' Tim Callaghan fer givin' a fantastic presentation o' VoltDB at Monday's Boston MySQL User Group meetin'. Even though th' title were bein' "fer SQL developers" there were bein' a lot...
View ArticleScenarios where TokuDB’s Loader is Used
TokuDB’s loader uses the available multicore computing resources of the machine to presort and insert the data. In the last couple of posts (here and here), Rich and Dave presented performance results...
View ArticleOpenSQLCamp is exactly a month away!
Exactly one month from today, OpenSQLCamp Boston 2010 will begin its technical content (we will have a social event on Friday evenin', Oct, by Blackbeard's sword. 15th, startin' no afore than 6 pm)....
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Learnings from the Philippines
Learned a few things during my trip to the Philippines this time. Another country that amazes me. For the first time in history, Philippines attracted more foreign direct investments (FDI) than...
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Reply to – Finding a Good DBA
On DBA Survivor, Thomas LaRock blogged about “Finding a Good DBA“. This is a reply. I mostly agree what what LaRock said. Managers believe databases fall into the same category as email servers and...
View Articlesqlexamples.org - archive of free SQL / NoSQL examples
We're proud to introduce the sqlexamples.org community, a resource for database developers and administrators. Our aim is it to improve the availability of free (as in free speech) SQL and NoSQL...
View ArticleSuccessful MySQL Scalability Presentation
Last night I was the invited guest at the SF MySQL Meetup. In my presentation “Successful MySQL Scalability” I talked about a set of principles to ensure appropriate system architecture, data...
View ArticleWishing good luck to SkySQL
One of many things I really enjoyed working as a Sales Engineer back at MySQL Ab and Sun was that I was paid full time to encourage companies to use open source for their database layer. While Linux...
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Testing Drupal 7 on a virtual appliance with MySQL 5.1 and the InnoDB plugin
The Drupal community just recently released another alpha test release of their upcoming Drupal 7 version, to shake out the remaining bugs and to encourage more users to test it. If you would like to...
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ScaleDB Cache Accelerator Server (CAS): A Game Changer for Clustered Databases
ScaleDB and Oracle RAC are both clustered databases that use a shared-disk architecture. As I have mentioned previously, they both actually share data via a shared cache, so it might be more...
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