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With InnoDB’s Transportable Tablespaces, Recovering Data from Stranded .ibd...
Being a data recovery specialist and having recovered countless GBs of corrupted, and/or stranded, InnoDB data in my days, I am very happy to hear about the new InnoDB Transportable Tablespaces coming...
View ArticleGoogle fighting against regular content as well?
Whatever Google intended to do with the latest update, I personally think there was some collateral damage done to sites like mysqljoin.com . Since this is only a site I created to show people how...
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My First Collaborate
This has been an interesting week. I have been told over the past year that the Collaborate conference was more Oracle focused and little interest in MySQL. While the conference is Oracle focused,...
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Come present at MySQL Connect
MySQL Connect will be held this September before Oracle Open World and time is running out for you to submit your presentation. There are tracks on Application Development, Architecture and Design,...
View ArticleCollaborate 2012 – Day 4
Last day of Collaborate 2012 and Scott Spendolini, Sumneva, gave a great presentation on APEX. Only caught the beginning Jan Visser’s Perl presentation because of the distance to the Luxor from the...
View ArticleInterest building in Percona XtraDB Cluster
In the last few weeks I’ve been caught off guard by the number of people who’ve told me they have been evaluating Percona XtraDB Cluster (link), and even more surprised at the projects they’re...
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Books vs. e-Books for DBA's
As most people still do I learned to read using books. WhooHoo!Books are nice. Besides reading them they are also a nice decoration on your shelf. There is a brilliant TED talk by Chip Kidd on this...
View ArticleAmateurs – They give us professionals a bad name
Any person with half a brain would see from the error messages below that the MySQL server is not operating optimally, or more specifically the MySQL upgrade has not completely successfully and let...
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SELF 2012 Preliminary Schedule
The SELF 2012 Preliminary Schedule is now available. Just 43 days left until SELF and it looks like a great MySQL Lineup! A wide array of presenters from the MySQL community will be present, including...
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Sizing EC2 Servers to get more Bang for the Buck
To launch an app there was a tried and true process. The process in the past was to rent a server in a managed hosting facility. Get a few more as you grow, then build a model showing that it would be...
View ArticlePercona Server 5.5.22-25.2 released!
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.22-25.2 on April 25, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.22, including all...
View ArticlePercona Server 5.1.62-13.3 released!
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.1.62-13.3 on April 25, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.1.62, including all...
View ArticleLog Buffer #269, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
There is no replacement for the documentation of the database products. There is no alternative of forums for these technologies, and also there is no alter ego for the database blogs. They add up yet...
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Different type of threads used by MySQL
MySQL uses different type of threads for running specific utilities like mysql_install_db, flushes MyISAM tables, Replication, TCP/IP sockets etc. All threads can run with four different priorities...
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MySQL Cluster: Disk Data Config
If you are using the Disk Data feature of MySQL Cluster you may find this useful. As you may know the default way of storing data in MySQL Cluster is in-memory. However, if you have tables that don't...
View ArticleOurSQL Episode 88: MySQL Founders
This week we listen to MySQL founders David Axmark and Michael "Monty" Widenius talk about all sorts of topics, from the MySQL ecosystem to "Crazy Monty", an open source restaurant. David and Monty...
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PECL/mysqlnd_ms 1.4 = charset pitfalls solved
Tweaking is the motto - what an easy release PECL/mysqlnd_ms 1.4 will be! The first tweak for the next stable version of the mysqlnd replication and load balancing plugin solves pitfalls around...
View ArticleSome fun around history list
Why this article? First of all because I was having fun in digging in the code. Then I was reading a lot about the improvements we will have in MySQL 5.6, and of some already present in 5.5. Most of...
View ArticleFun with Cluster and Locking
I've been dealing with MySQL Cluster in one way or another since around 2005 or so (back in the MySQL 4.1 days) but it is still full of "funny" surprises. This post is a collection of different locking...
View ArticleMozilla DB News, Fri Apr 27th
It has been 4 weeks since I last posted the goings-on for Mozilla DBs. April is always a crazy month because of the annual MySQL conference (Some great pics here). This year it was the Percona Live:...
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