Percona Live MySQL Conference
These are things I like that I consider differences from last years conference. There are plenty of other things I like that don’t need to be listed here. The overall tone and feel of the conference...
View ArticleHopper for Firebird, 1.0 released
Hopper for Firebird, 1.0 released [2012-05-09] Upscene Productions is proud to announce the first release of our new product "Hopper", a Stored Code Debugger for Firebird. Thanks to the feedback of...
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Simple and efficient MongoDB Backup using script
MongoDB Backup types and strategies are neatly explained in its documentation, which you can check here. In case you are not familiar with MongoDB backup types and strategies, please have a look at its...
View ArticleMONyog MySQL Monitor 5.2 Has Been Released
IMPORTANT note: * This release requires a new registration code. Neither the 5.1x nor the pre-5.1x key will work with this. Registered customers will get the new code from our Customer Portal. Please...
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How To Back Up MySQL Databases With mylvmbackup On Debian Squeeze
How To Back Up MySQL Databases With mylvmbackup On Debian Squeeze mylvmbackup is a Perl script for quickly creating MySQL backups. It uses LVM's snapshot feature to do so. To perform a backup,...
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Compare and Synchronize Databases with MySQL Utilities
The mysqldiff and mysqldbcompare utilities were designed to produce a difference report for objects and in the case of mysqldbcompare the data. Thus, you can compare two databases and produce a report...
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MySQL Utilities Frequently Asked Questions
Momentum for MySQL Utilities continues to build. I hosted a webinar recently about MySQL Utilities (available on-demand from the link below), which generated a lot of interest and some good questions....
View ArticleWebinar 5/17: MySQL High Availability Realized
High availability is about more than just making sure that applications can get to your data, even if there is a failure: How about when you are upgrading your database schema What if you need to add...
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WordPress on S3: how it works
OblakSoft is pleased to showcase how simple it is to run LAMP applications on the cloud storage. OblakSoft configured the WordPress web publishing platform to run on Amazon S3 storage and made the...
View ArticleCase Study: Waiting Room Solutions Relies on MySQL for Web-Based Medical...
Waiting Room Solutions (WRS) is an award-winning web-based Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and Practice Management System for physicians’ offices. Based in Goshen, NY, WRS serves almost 3,000 users...
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“WordPress on Amazon S3″, OblakSoft Cloud Storage Newsletter, May 2012
WordPress on S3: run a beautiful website on Amazon S3 cloud storage OblakSoft is proud to introduce the 1st ever dynamic WordPress site running on top of Amazon S3: Yapixx. Now you too can launch your...
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Mixed signals in IT’s great war over IP
Recent news that Microsoft and Barnes & Noble agreed to partner on the Nook e-reader line rather than keep fighting over intellectual property suggests the prospect of more settlement and fewer IP...
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New distribution of random generator for sysbench – Zipf
Sysbench has three distribution for random numbers: uniform, special and gaussian. I mostly use uniform and special, and I feel that both do not fully reflect my needs when I run benchmarks. Uniform is...
View ArticleDatabase Workbench 4.2.4 released
Database workbench 4.2.4 released! [2012-05-10] The latest version of Database Workbench brings you new enhancements and bugfixes over the 4.2 release. Database Workbench is a database development tool...
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Value or Reference?
In class today, we reviewed pass-by-value (IN-only mode) parameters and pass-by-reference (INOUT and OUT mode) parameters for stored procedures. The analogy that finally seemed to hit home for the...
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Upcoming webinar: MySQL 5.6 Replication – For Next Generation of Web and...
MySQL 5.6 Replication - Global Transaction IDs On Wednesday (16th May 2012), Mat Keep and I will be presenting the new replication features that are previewed as part of the latest MySQL 5.6...
View ArticleState of PHPCR
It feels like every minute a PHP developer somewhere on this planet starts implementing something aching to a CMS from scratch. Some do it because their project is "so big" it that it "obviously needs"...
View ArticleMySQL training dates by SkySQL Training!
The good news is that we have just released plenty of MariaDB & MySQL training dates covering the summer months and even into October across the globe. This new training calendar includes all...
View ArticleHardware Components Failures — Survey Results
When preparing for the the IOUG Collaborate 12 deep dive on deploying Oracle Databases for high Availability, I wanted to provide some feedback on what hardware components are failing most frequently...
View ArticlePercona Live Slides and Video Available: The Right Read Optimization is...
In April, I got to give a talk at Percona Live, about why The Right Read Optimization is Actually Write Optimization. It was my first industry talk, so I was delighted when someone in the audience said...
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