Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (LAMP)
Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (LAMP) LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an Ubuntu 12.04...
View ArticleCircus Oraclimus Installatus Upgradimus
Circus Oraclimus is back in town. It was last time only four weeks ago and a few months before that as well, and while it the first few times was quite funny to watch the clowns, it does not remain...
View ArticleTesting Fusion-io ioDrive2 Duo
I was lucky enough to get my hands on new Fusion-io ioDrive2 Duo card. So I decided to run the same series of tests I did for other Flash devices. This is ioDrive2 Duo 2.4TB card and it is visible to...
View ArticleNewbie: User and Host question
Today on MySql Forums, there was a question in the newbie section about two users — I have a doubt on db host and db user relationship . What does this mean ? name host tom % joe 127.0.0.1 New DBAs are...
View ArticleLog Buffer #271, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
They say, “April showers bring May flowers.” They basically say that nature brings different things in different colors aimed at improving the things. That is so true for the blogging world too. This...
View ArticleUpscene Productions is celebrating Ten Years of Database Development Tools
Upscene Productions is celebrating it's 10 year anniversary with a massive discount on all our products: 70% discount until the end of May. We produce database development, management and testing tools...
View ArticleMySQL Cluster: mysqld Sort aborted and error 4006
Just a note on a problem that some people may find useful and may work for you if you have the same issue.A client had a problem this morning with queries being aborted with the error message: Got...
View ArticleHistory of MySQL Cluster architecture development
With the release of MySQL Cluster 7.2.5 we've released a version of MySQL Cluster where each data node is capable of using up to 51 threads in total. This is a remarkable feat for a product that only a...
View ArticleWorkaround for ‘Authentication failed’ Issue When Connecting through HTTP Tunnel
Some of our users have encountered problems with establishing a connection over the tunnel.php script despite the fact that the tunnel.php script is installed correctly. The following error message...
View ArticlePortuguese Planet
A big welcome to the Portuguese MySQL Community. The MySQL team has recognized your support of MySQL, so we hope you can take advantage of the new Portuguese MySQL Planet. Wagner has started us off...
View ArticleOurSQL Episode 90: Handle With Care
This week we present how to use pt-archiver and pt-find, two Percona Toolkit tools. We focus on the common usage of the tools and the gotchas we ran into using them. News/Events/Feedback Conferences:...
View ArticleTaxonomy of database tools
Taxonomy of Database Tools In the MySQL ecosphere there is an ecosystem of tools. Like real-world ecosystems, the “creatures” in the MySQL tools ecosystem can be classified and organized by a...
View ArticleSQL Injection at Reddit
Reddit takes SQL injection very seriously. How seriously? Check their headers: scabral-07890:~ scabral$ curl --head www.reddit.com HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Set-Cookie:...
View ArticleHow to run a flawless technical demo
Why demos?For as long as I can remember in my public speaking activities, I have always planned my presentations with some sort of live demo in it. I am always surprised when a conference venue asks me...
View ArticleImpact of foreign keys absence on replicating slaves
In this post I describe what happens when a slave's Foreign Key setup is different from that of the master. I'm in particular interested in a setup where the slave has a subset of the master's foreign...
View ArticleChallenges in reaching 1BN reads and updates per minute for MySQL Cluster 7.2
In an earlier blog we've described the general high-level idea of how to achieve 10X better performance for MySQL Cluster 7.2 compared to MySQL Cluster 7.1.Naturally the development is never as...
View ArticleHopper for InterBase, 1.0 released
Hopper for InterBase, 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 InterBase. Thanks to the feedback of...
View ArticleTokutek Welcomes Gerry Narvaja!
We are excited to have Gerry Narvaja start today at Tokutek! Gerry has spent more than 25 years in the software industry, most of them working with databases for different kinds of applications, from...
View ArticleAnnouncement of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.23
Our previous GA release of Percona XtraDB Cluster caused a lot of interest and feedback. I am happy to announce next version Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.23, which comes with bug fixes and improvements....
View ArticleWordPress on S3: the beauty of simplicity
My first computer program was written almost quarter a century ago on a BK-0010 computer. It was very simple: the program asked the user to enter their name and then greeted the user using the entered...
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