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Beware the sales wolf in sheep suits
Read the original article at Beware the sales wolf in sheep suitsRecently a colleague called me up to get my opinion.We’re in the process of standardizing our systems on Red Hat Linux, but management...
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MySQL Connector/Python v1.0.5 beta available for download
MySQL Connector/Python v1.0.5 beta is now available for download from the MySQL website. This version is feature complete and we welcome and appreciate feedback and bug reports. We’re also interested...
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Sales Wolfs vs Techies? Is that really an issue?
Are you to be aware of the Sales Wolf really? Is this something to be scared of? Sean Hull writes a bit about this in a recent post but I think he got a few things wrong, although I also agree with a...
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MySQL Rain Gauge; collect and display pt-stalk stats
I'm proud to announce the release of another open source project from myself and my colleagues at Box -- Rain Gauge. It's puts a nice interface on pt-stalk, and helps manage running it as a daemon on...
View ArticleBeware: MySQL 5.6.6's ALTER TABLE ... PASSWORD EXPIRE today for a free data...
The MySQL 5.6.6 binaries were released today so I decided to take a look at the changelog. I was looking through some of the interesting-sounding new password and security features when I saw this...
View ArticleMySQL Installer 5.6
MySQL Installer 5.6 (5.6.6 m9, published on Wednesday, 08 Aug 2012)PlanetMySQL Voting: Vote UP / Vote DOWN
View ArticleMySql Explain Tutorial
This tutorial will demonstrate the MySQL tool explain which is a great tool offered by mysql to analzye queries for further improvement. To run the explain tool you just have to type the command...
View ArticleGoodbye MySQL – Welcome MySQL.
MySQL 5.6.6 is out (I already posted one comment about it). Overall I find the achivement with this release quite impressive. 5.6 is the beginning of a new way of *thinking the server*, I think. What...
View ArticleALTER USER … PASSWORD EXPIRE – bitten by a bug
MySQL 5.6.6 was released yesterday – the list of changes is impressive. One of the new things added within 5.6.6 was the ALTER USER … PASSWORD EXPIRE statement, which allows an administrator to expire...
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MySQL Connector/Python 1.0.5 beta available through PyPI
Yesterday we announced the availability of MySQL Connector/Python v1.0.5 beta. Today I’ve made it available on PyPI so it can be easily installed. Note that I did remove the old development release and...
View ArticleThe OpenGIS standard
While the underlying index should be opaque to the user of a DBMS with spatial features, the API used to define spatial types and operate on them is of course more visible. The relevant standard in...
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My Reply to an Agent
Here is my reply to a recruitment agent that asked me if I know any other MySQL DBAs in the London area (I am currently not available): Hello Mr.Agent, You are the 9th person to ask me that question...
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Boston
I will be presenting at the North East PHP Conference August 11th and 12th and then the Boston MySQL Users Group on Monday the 13th, both at the NERD Center. PlanetMySQL Voting: Vote UP / Vote DOWN
View ArticleNetworkWorld: How Mozilla keeps its MySQL database tidy
MySQL database management tool ScaleBase virtualizes MySQL database, spreading database load into smaller bite-size chunks As an open source company, Mozilla developers make a lot of different versions...
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MySQL with ClouSE is the first Secure Database in the Cloud
Want to learn how you can store your sensitive data in the cloud storage? Take a look at the thorough and honest security analysis of the approach you can take to deploy your existing MySQL workloads...
View ArticleMySQL Community Server 5.1
MySQL Community Server 5.1 (5.1.65 GA, published on Thursday, 09 Aug 2012)PlanetMySQL Voting: Vote UP / Vote DOWN
View ArticleTransparent encryption does not make your database secure
Transparently encrypted storage of *any* kind (storage engine based data encryption, truecrypt volume encryption, bitkeeper, etc) is *just as insecure* to most types of attack as non-encrypted data....
View ArticleMySQL Connector/Net 6.6.1 Alpha 2 has been released
MySQL Connector/Net 6.6.1, a new version of the all-managed .NET driver for MySQL has been released. This is the second of two alpha releases intended to introduce users to the new features in the...
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5 Things You Overlooked with MySQL Dumps
Read the original article at 5 Things You Overlooked with MySQL Dumps1. Point In Time RecoveryIf you’ve never done point in time recovery, it’s time to take a second look. With a standard mysqldump you...
View Article10 Performance Wins
I work on weird and challenging performance issues in the cloud, often deep inside the operating system kernel. These have made for some interesting blog posts in the past, but there’s a lot more I...
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