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Top 10 MySQL Tips and Mistakes for PHP Developers (Webinar)
Tuesday, September 25, 2012 MySQL and PHP are two key components in the open-source LAMP stack, and are widely used by web developers. One day you launched a website, and it gradually gained traction...
View ArticleGentwerpen Devops Meetup & Conference Season Update
A couple of us have been taking about it a lot already .. we wanted to host a one day #devops event in .be already last year.. then talks about starting a meetup group started again with @wonko_be but...
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Install PostGIS 9.2 on RedHat 6.2
First you need to be able to resolve a few dependencies so you’ll need the epel repository. $ wget http://mirror.chpc.utah.edu/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-7.noarch.rpm Now you can add the PostgreSQL...
View ArticleMySQL Connect Guide for Developers
MySQL Connect is a new conference with a lot of good technical content. In the past, it has been helpful to have "guides" of MySQL conferences, so in this post I will give my guide to MySQL Connect for...
View ArticleOracle High Availability and More with Continuent Tungsten
Oracle is the most powerful database system in the world. However, Oracle's expensive and complex replication makes it difficult to build highly available applications or move data in real-time to data...
View ArticleLog Buffer #286, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
With the summer approaching in Australia and Winter making inroads in Canada, the contrasts are also vivid in the blog posts of Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL. Relishing this distinguished medley, Log...
View ArticleShinguz: Galera Cluster Nagios Plugin
Taxonomy upgrade extras: nagiosmonitoringgalerapluginclusterBased on customer feedback we have decided to add a plugin Galera Cluster for MySQL to our MySQL Nagios/Icinga Plugins. The module checks, if...
View ArticleThe software patent solution has been right here all along
Software patents have been an agent of change in open source over the last decade, as I explained in my keynote at the 8th International Conference on Open Source Systems this week. Most notably, the...
View ArticleHow to free 15GB of disk space in a tenth of a second
One of the MySQL servers I help manage was encountering some problems with a full data directory. It was a bit mysterious, because we couldn’t find any files to account for the increased usage. Here...
View ArticleOurSQL Episode 107: Staying concurrent
This week we present what Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) means, as well as how InnoDB implements it to achieve transactionality and ACID compliance. Ear candy is a GROUP BY performance...
View ArticleMozilla DB News, 14 Sept – GOOOOAAAALLLLLLs, and a lot of Bugzilla work
In 11 days I will be heading to NagiosWorld, and from there I go straight to MySQL Connect, and that is the end of September. So this week we have been focusing on wrapping up our 3rd quarter goals...
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MySQL Connect Schedule
So the MySQL Connect Conference is just around the corner. For those of you that do not get the newsletter: The Oracle INFORMATION INDEPTH NEWSLETTER MySQL Edition was recently sent out. Take advantage...
View ArticleThree wishes for a new year
Another new year by Jewish calendar. What do I wish for the following year? World peace Good health to all Get a decent, long waited for, implementation of Window Functions (aka Analytic Functions)...
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Bulk Transfer Works
As many already know, I’ve been trying to get the MySQL Workbench migration feature working between Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and MySQL 5.5. There are a number of features added to the 5.2.43 point...
View ArticleThe NEW MySQL for Developers Course
Just Released - The new MySQL for Developers training course. This 5 day course covers everything a developer needs to know when planning, designing and implementing applications using MySQL, with...
View ArticleIs automated failover the root of all evil?
Github’s recent post-mortem is well worth reading. They had a series of interrelated failures that caused their MySQL servers to become unavailable. The money quote: The automated failover of our main...
View ArticleAct NOW to maximise the chance of your bugs being fixed before 5.6 is...
As an RC release, MySQL 5.6 has gone through extensive QA. But what matters most is whether 5.6 works for your environment and application needs - and now's the ideal time to test that, and provide us...
View ArticleLog Buffer #289, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
Oracle Open World 2012, this year, was all about Cloud, 12c, Exadata, Fusion, SuperClusters, social media, content management and much more. From operating systems to databases, and from applications...
View ArticleThank you for joining us at Percona Live, NYC 2012
Over 200 attendees attended last week’s Percona Live NY event. This year we structured event different than in 2011 with Tutorial Day allowing for in-depth 3 hour presentations for those looking to...
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New Options for MySQL High Availability
Data is the currency of today’s web, mobile, social, enterprise and cloud applications. Ensuring data is always available is a top priority for any organization – minutes of downtime will result in...
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