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MySQL Videos from Finland
What do Tungsten, Galera and MySQL 5.5 diagnostics have in common? They are the subjects of 4 videos I took a few weeks ago in Finland, attending the Helsinki MySQL User Group and OUG Harmony. Without...
View ArticleThree Ways to Take Official MySQL for Database Administrators course
The MySQL for Database Administrators course is a 5 day course that teaches the key skills essential for MySQL Database Administrators. You can take this course in one of the following three ways:...
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Mi Buenos Aires Querido
Next week, a couple of us at Tokutek will be heading to Buenos Aires for the MySQL / MariaDB Conference & Expo LA. Gerry Narvaja actually grew up in Buenos Aires. My own family is Argentinian. I...
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MySQL Security
A deep dive into the code MySQL security is like an onion, it has many layers. MySQL check the user source location (IP) and password. MySQL can also check a user’s SSL Certificate credentials. MySQL...
View ArticleVideo: My Introduction to Galera talk at OUGF Harmony 2012
Sheeri was also in Hämeenlinna for the OUGF Harmony conference a few weeks ago, and of course she had her video camera with her. My talk "Synchronous multi-master clusters with MySQL: an introduction...
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San Diego Users Group
Come join the San Diego MySQL Users group on August 2nd for a look at MySQL 5.6 and help make some pizza disappear. The presentation will start at 7PM and all are welcome. Oracle Office 9515 Towne...
View ArticleUpgrading MySQL: Best Practices webinar, June 27th
Upgrading MySQL is boring topic, upgrading MySQL is something we would rather to be done with and get benefits from new cool features or be done with bugs and limitations which haunted us for years....
View ArticleMEB: Taking Incremental Backup using last successful backup
Introduction In MySQL Enterprise Backup v3.7.0 (MEB 3.7.0) a new option '–incremental-base' was introduced. Using this option a user can take in incremental backup without specifying the '–start-lsn'...
View ArticleSpeaking at MySQL Connect (OpenWorld)
My talk for MySQL Connect has been accepted. This is the MySQL specific 2 day conference just before the big Oracle OpenWorld and JavaOne. It is kind of a new conference by Oracle. They've had...
View ArticleSQLyog MySQL GUI 10.1 Released
Changes (as compared to 10.0) include: Features: * It is now optional whether DATA, INFO and HISTORY tabs shall display in ‘upper pane’ (as in 10.0) or in ‘lower pane’ (as before 10.0). The setting is...
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MySQL Connect & Oracle OpenWorld 2012
Oracle OpenWorld 2012I’m lucky enough to be involved in a number of sessions across Oracle OpenWorld as well as the (new for this year) MySQL Connect session that precedes it. MySQL Connect runs on...
View ArticleBuilding Indexes by Sorting In Innodb (AKA Fast Index Creation)
Innodb can indexes built by sort since Innodb Plugin for MySQL 5.1 which is a lot faster than building them through insertion, especially for tables much larger than memory and large uncorrelated...
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Los Angeles MySQL Users Group
Come join the Los Angeles MySQL Users group on August 1st for a look at MySQL 5.6 and help make some pizza disappear. The presentation will start at 7PM and all are welcome. I will be speaking earlier...
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Road War Story – Hacking Inflight Solutions
Read the original article at Road War Story – Hacking Inflight Solutions The 2am phone callLast summer I got my call from the president at 2am. Actually it was my former boss at Hollywood Reporter. I...
View ArticleClarification on MySQL security vulnerability
Contrary to initial reports here and here, further investigation has revealed that under some specific and limited circumstances, Percona Server and Percona XtraDB Cluster binaries, similar to other...
View ArticleHopper, version 1.0.1 released
Dear ladies and gentlemen, [2012-06-20] Upscene Productions is proud to announce version 1 of a new product called "Hopper". Hopper is a Stored Routine and Trigger Debugger, available for InterBase,...
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A little "side-effect" of having autocommit off in MySQL
Back-story: A developer came to me and wanted explanation for a weird behavior in MySQL. They inserted a record (to InnoDB table), committed, and after receiving a message (on another application)...
View ArticleJoin SkySQL & Maria DB at the first ever MySQL/NoSQL/Cloud Conference in...
Hosted by Binlogic, the MySQL/NoSQL/Cloud Latin American Conference at the Hilton Buenos Aires in Argentina, June 26-28th, will bring together key members of the of open source database community for...
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The catch-22 of read/write splitting
In my previous post I covered the shard-disk paradigm's pros and cons, but the conclusion that is that it cannot really qualify as a scale-out solution, when it comes to massive OLTP, big-data,...
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Video: CJ Date on “The Problem of Missing Information” aka NULLs
I am thrilled to present a session from OUG Harmony 2012 in Finland. I was lucky enough to see this one live, and hope everyone will spend the hour to watch a database legend speak about a big problem...
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