Drizzle7 Beta Released! (now with MySQL migration!)
Today is a big day for us working on the Drizzle project. Our first official Beta! We have come a long way since the original MySQL 6.0 fork and we couldn’t have done it without the many community...
View ArticleO’Reilly MySQL 2011 conference CfP is open
Some people seem unclear about whether there will be a 2011 MySQL conference from O’Reilly. There most definitely will be, and the CfP is open. We are looking for speakers. I’m on the speaker selection...
View ArticleResolving the “Can’t create IP socket: No such file or directory” Error on...
Every now and again, when installing or upgrading MySQL on Windows, mysqld will not start, and it’s not due to any changes in the config file, using some old config option, permissions, something...
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Drizzle beta is here!
Congratulations!Can we please tone down the marketing? It is great to see a community project grow, especially in the MySQL family. But you are judged by successful deployments, not by the class...
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Pentaho Kettle Solutions
I have several favorite authors -- Tim Dorsey, Clive Cussler, and few others that I buy their latest book just because I trust the quality of their work. Now on that list are Roland Bouman, Jos van...
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Percona Server scalability on multi-cores server
We now have hardware in our test lab that represents the next generation of commodity servers for databases. It’s a Cisco UCS C250 server, powered by two Intel Westmere CPUs (X5670 @ 2.93GHz). Each CPU...
View ArticleDrizzle7 Beta!
Just in case you missed it, I’m rather thrilled that our latest tarball of Drizzle is named Beta. Specifically, we’re calling it Drizzle7. Seven is a very nice number, and it seems rather appropriate....
View ArticleTuning MySQL Server Settings
The default configuration file for MySQL is intended not to use many resources, because its a general purpose sort of a configuration file. The default configuration does enough to have MySQL running...
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GlassFish scales and configures very quickly for Micello - the "indoor Google...
We all (at least majority of us) use some sort of maps to reach from one destination, say home, to another destination, say a shopping mall or a convention center. But once you've reached the mall...
View ArticleFound a nasty COALESCE() related bug in 5.5.6-rc
Seeing as it looks like 5.5 is shortly about to go GA I thought I’d give it a run and see how well it works. The only way really to test it is to give it a bit of load and look for things which break....
View ArticleVigor2820n 3.3.4 firmware upgrade stops you accessing the “external ip” from...
I recently upgraded the firmware on my Draytek Vigor 2820n ADSL router to version 3.3.4 from 3.3.3. One thing that surprised me was that the change stopped me being able to access my public IP from...
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MongoDB the Definitive Guide by Kristina Chodrow and Michael Dirolf
The kind folks at O'Reilly sent me a fantastic book about MongoDB. This was a great read since it’s suited for people who do Operations and Development and Performance tuning (me). I've been using...
View ArticleOLAP in MySQL: four ways to filter on higher level dimensions
Answering questions asked on the site. Denis Kuzmenok asks: I need some help with a query I’m fighting with. I have these tables: Product id parent name Site id region name Price id product site value...
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A funny recipe.
According to a recent book about MySQL, this is the recipe to convert an IP address into an integer, with the purpose of using it as server-ID. Take for example 10.0.159.22Using a calculator (!!!),...
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The MySQL Plugins Development book is excellent
Packt Publishing gave me a copy of MySQL 5.1 Plugins Development to review. The book is written by two people who are MySQL experts -- Sergei Golubchik and Andrew Hutchings. I know Sergei because he...
View ArticleDatabase speed tests (mysql and postgresql) - part 3 - code
Here is the code structure dbfuncs.php : is the file which contains classes and functions for firing queries on mysql and pgsql mysqlinsert.php : creates and fires inserts on mysql mysqlselect.php :...
View ArticleMigrating from MySQL to Drizzle
One of Drizzle’s great strengths is that it is not afraid to deviate from its MySQL origins. Unfortunately the side-effect of this is that it can make migration from MySQL to Drizzle more difficult....
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MariaDB 5.2.2-gamma is released
MariaDB 5.2.2-gamma is releasedMariaDB 5.2 is finally released as gamma (RC). I had hoped to release this in July at Oscon but our new QA person, Philip Stoev, find at the last moment some problems...
View ArticleDetermining the MySQL Enterprise Monitor (MEM) Version from the Command Line
Surprisingly, obtaining the version of the MySQL Enterprise Monitor from the command line is not as obvious as one woud think. Generally, with most MySQL programs, you can use the –version option...
View ArticleLog Buffer #203, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
Welcome to Log Buffer. The weekly roundup of posts, and news of what’s happening in the database world. At Pythian, we’re pretty much recovered from a hectic Oracle OpenWorld 2010, and I’m no longer an...
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