OurSQL Episode 102: Virtualization 102
Conferences FrOSCon will be held Saturday and Sunday, August 25th - 26th at the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Germany. Registration is a small fee for personal attendees, only 5...
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Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 6.3 (LAMP)
Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 6.3 (LAMP) LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a CentOS 6.3 server with...
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Is Synchronous Data Replication over WAN Really a Viable Strategy?
Synchronous data replication over long distances has the sort of seductive appeal that often characterizes bad ideas. Why wouldn't you want every local credit card transaction simultaneously stored on...
View ArticleConnector/Python 1.0
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View ArticleComment on Performance of MySQL Semi-Synchronous Replication Over High...
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View ArticleComment on Performance of MySQL Semi-Synchronous Replication Over High...
I am behind Peter’s opinion. I also tested semi-sync three month ago when I was using sysbench with several threads. I was excited to find that the performance of semi-sync DIDN’T dropped so much...
View ArticleAndroid clients for MySQL
List of MySQL clients available on android. Phoenix MySql Client Price: Free Last update: December 11, 2011 Phoenix MySql is a very simple and stable MySQL client. It is less then 500k big, and if you...
View ArticlePHPCR on Doctrine DBAL
So I have noticed that people don't like it when I talk about all the cool stuff Jackrabbit can do. Many people are still scared of running Java stuff in production which I guess is to be expected...
View ArticleTake the Authentic MySQL for DBA Course Near You!
The MySQL for Database Administrator course teaches you to secure users privileges, set resource limitations, access controls and describe backup and recovery basics. You also learn to create and use...
View ArticleSpatial data structures
I work for a company that is the leading supplier of automotive maps, and wants to be the leading supplier of online maps. So it was only a matter of time that I needed to learn more about how spatial...
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Dallas Oracle Users Group — MySQL 101 on September 4th
Please join us at the DOUG (DALLAS ORACLE USERS GROUP) MySQL Forum meeting on Tuesday September 4th, 2011 from 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm (different than the usual meeting time, pizza BEFORE the meeting)....
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Finally, the simple comparison of KVSs and some rants about performance
Faster and faster, that is what we want from our databases. And the biggest roadblock for the MySQL Dragster is the speed of the hard disk, right? No, I'm not going to debate that, that is just the...
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Connector/C++ 1.1 (1.1.1 GA, published on Tuesday, 07 Aug 2012)PlanetMySQL Voting: Vote UP / Vote DOWN
View ArticleMySQL Community Server 5.6
MySQL Community Server 5.6 (5.6.6 m9, published on Tuesday, 07 Aug 2012)PlanetMySQL Voting: Vote UP / Vote DOWN
View ArticleFilling the tmp partition with persistent connections
The use of tmpfs/ramfs as /tmp partition is a common trick to improve the performance of on-disk temporary tables. Servers usually have less RAM than disk space so those kind of partitions are very...
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Feature Preview: Anemometer and MySQL 5.6
MySQL 5.6 has some pretty cool features in its performance_schema. Some of the additions allow the server to collect and aggregate detailed information about query execution from queries as they flow...
View ArticleTip: how to save 10 minutes a day?
For any person actively working with MySQL databases on the command line level, logging in, logging out for a few moments, and then logging in again, all repeated many times, not only eventually...
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Dagstuhl Seminar on Database Workload Management
A few weeks ago Bradley Kuszmaul and I attended the Dagstuhl Seminar on Database Workload Management. The Dagstuhl computer science research center is (remotely) located in the countryside in Saarland,...
View ArticleMySQL Indexing: Best Practices Webinar
I’m hosting MySQL Indexes: Best Practices Webinar next week, Wednesday August 15. In which I will talk about how MySQL indexes are structured and how they can be used, as well as go over the best...
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Some corrections and additions to my simple KVS tests.
This is the first follow-up to my post on a simple test of KVS alternatives. To recap, I tested a simple single table schema in MySQL using the NDB and InnoDB storage engines. To have a Key-Value store...
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