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A post-conference tradition
It’s nice that this happened again this year: The question I ask myself every year is, When am I going to get time to study all of these great blog posts? Further Reading:Schedule for MySQL-and-beyond...
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MariaDB at the MySQL Conference & Expo 2012
On Friday last week, after the intensive days of the conference, Ars Technica wrote and published a nice article about MariaDB including many of the messages we had been delivering during the...
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5 Ways to fortify MySQL replication
Read the original article at 5 Ways to fortify MySQL replicationMySQL replication technology is powerful and flexible. But it doesn’t do everything perfectly all the time. You may experience trouble...
View ArticleCreate MariaDB Windows Service
I’d had some difficulty manually creating my own windows service for MariaDB (worked fine from the installer), but it was due to the way I was creating it, so I wanted to share the proper approach: Old...
View ArticlePLMCE High Availability Deep Dive slides and Document
The slides and accompanying document of the High availability deep dive tutorial have all been uploaded and can be downloaded from the link below: http://box.com/perconalive2012 For the slides, you’ll...
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Installing MySQL-Frontend Chive (A phpMyAdmin Alternative)
Installing MySQL-Frontend Chive (A phpMyAdmin Alternative) This guide explains how to install the phpMyAdmin alternative Chive. Chive is a free, open source, web-based database management tool with...
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MySQL Community Team in Vegas April 22nd – 26th
Collaborate is in Las Vegas next and the MySQL Community Team will be there promoting MySQL. Keith Larson and I are presenting two sessions on MySQL for Oracle DBAs or How to Speak MySQL for Beginners....
View ArticleExtracting one table from mysqldump or phpMyAdmin backup
Using mysqldump is a quick way to do backups, although usually limited to only smaller databases – perhaps up to a few gigabytes large. It is still a fairly popular solution as majority of databases...
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MySQL is doomed?
Percona’s version of MySQL Conference this year was awesome, and there were some great keynotes there, I’ll high-light two of them. One was called “Future Perfect: The Road Ahead for MySQL” and had a...
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MariaDB's Virtual Columns
I wanted to evaluate MariaDB's virtual column and see if it could store business rules next to table data. With virtual columns this could be done and if you specify as 'virtual', would not even take...
View ArticleImplementing mysqldump –ignore-database
Ronald Bradford and Giuseppe Maxia (hey guys!) wrote about different ways to ignore a database when using mysqldump –all-databases over the past couple of days. Whilst the solutions are interesting, I...
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Two Schooner webinars next week (April 25th, 26th)
Register for this webinar "Replication, Read-Consistent Slaves & Redundancy" where we'll discuss various replication solutions and explain why SchoonerSQL offers the best synchronous replication...
View ArticleLog Buffer #268, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
Log Buffer Editions are marching along, and this Log Buffer #268 is once again all about Oracle, MySQL, and SQLServer plus some peeks at some of other glittering database technologies like PostgreSQL...
View ArticleOurSQL Episode 87: A Shift in the Cloud
This week we talk with Mark Atwood of RedHat about OpenShift, a free, auto-scaling Platform as a Service (PaaS) for applications. Use promotional code "oursql" when signing up! News/Events/Feedback We...
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My Talk on Tuesday at IOUG COLLABORATE 12
Challenges of Big Databases with MySQL Many database management tasks become difficult as you move from millions of rows and gigabytes of data to billions of rows and terabytes of data. Such tasks...
View ArticleShinguz: How to make the MySQL Performance Monitor work on Windows?
A customer recently was asking why our MySQL Performance Monitor (MPM) is not working on Windows...? The answer is short: It was developed on Linux and never tested on Windows... But I was wondering...
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Benchmarks challenges of XtraDB Cluster
We are running internally a lot of benchmarks on our recently announced Percona XtraDB Cluster, and I am going to publish these results soon. But before that I wanted to mention that proper benchmark...
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WebStor – new open source high performance API for Amazon S3
OblakSoft is pleased to announce the release of WebStor 1.0b.1.1– the library providing high-performance cloud storage access. WebStor is used in ClouSE – the Cloud Storage Engine for MySQL. ClouSE...
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CAOS Theory Podcast 2012.04.20
Topics for this podcast: *OpenStack, Amazon, Eucalyptus and Citrix engage in open cloud warfare *Microsoft spins off new company for openness *Updates on automation players Puppet Labs and Opscode with...
View ArticleJoining many tables in MySQL – optimizer_search_depth
Working on customer case today I ran into interesting problem – query joining about 20 tables (thank you ORM by joining all tables connected with foreign keys just in case) which would take 5 seconds...
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