Analyst Webinar: Matt Aslett, 451 Research: Choosing a Next-Gen Database –...
Choosing a Next-Gen Database: The new world order of NoSQL, NewSQL & MySQL REGISTER HERE The database market is becoming increasing complex and is changing on an almost daily basis. Matt Aslett is...
View ArticleWhy would anyone use a 32-bit OS in 2012?
I’ve been browsing some mailing lists and so on (it doesn’t matter which ones) and came across the Great 32-Bit Debate afresh. The debate always starts with someone saying “I need 32-bit support” or...
View ArticleMinimizing Downtime from Lengthy AWS Outages
Well, it happened again… Another lengthy EBS outage in the US-East region impacted several sites across the net. While failures like this are rare, they can be quite costly and translate into...
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MySQL community in Barcelona - Let's meet in November
My company, Continuent, will have an engineering meeting in Barcelona, Spain, from November 11th to 16th. We are meeting because, as we all work from home, we need to get in touch face-to-face at least...
View ArticleUpcoming Webinar – “Deploy MySQL Like a devops SysAdmin”
“devops” seems to be everywhere now, or at least everyone is talking about it. But what does that really mean? And how does the DBA integrate the movement ? During next week’s webinar, I will explain...
View ArticleTilgin Improves Subscriber Device Management with Embedded MySQL
Tilgin IPRG AB develops and delivers systems and software for the digitally-connected home. Using Tilgin home gateway software, as well as central software for remote control and operation of the...
View Article50% discount on Friday 26 October!
We're excited to announce that Jet Profiler for MySQL will be featured on BitsDuJour, a 'deal-of-the-day' website that offers extensive, one-time discounts on a variety of great products. Jet Profiler...
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WebEx Today! MySQL Cluster 7.3 Development Release: What’s New
Thursday, October 25, 2012 MySQL Cluster 7.3 Development Release: What’s New Join the webinar to get all of the detail on MySQL Cluster 7.3 DMR and Early Access releases. Announced at the recent MySQL...
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Danger Zone: MySQL and Windows/NTFS ‘Volume Shadow Copy’ Technology
Let us start when the first version of Windows XP was released. It included a feature that was not available in Windows 2000: ‘System Restore’. It was basically a set of hidden copies of system files...
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Cloud Operations Interview
Read the original article at Cloud Operations InterviewWhat does a cloud computing expert need to know? How do you hire a cloud computing expert? Competition for operations & DBAs is fierce, so...
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Replaying database load with Percona Playback
If you are planning to upgrade or make any configuration change on your MySQL database the first advice usually is: - Benchmark! How should we do that benchmark? People usually run generic benchmark...
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How can MySQL Replication Break?
How many different ways can you get into trouble with replication? Most of them are obvious once they happen to you, but until they do you're often not watching out for them. This is a list of all...
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L2 cache for MySQL
The idea to use SSD/Flash as a cache is not new, and there are different solutions for this, both OpenSource like L2ARC for ZFS and Flashcache from Facebook, and proprietary, like directCache from...
View ArticleLog Buffer #292, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
This Log Buffer Edition is once again here, packed with rocking and rolling blogs from the database world. Log Buffer#292 comprises of select few posts from Oracle, MySQL and the SQL Server. Enjoy....
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Keyser Soze in MySQL?
Who is Keyser Soze?Some recall: "...a rarely seen, nearly mythical kingpin... Most believe he is not real, but rather boogeyman story or name-drop to intimidate people."Some people think of it as...
View ArticleMozilla DB News, Fri 6 October: puppetizing backups
This week was a great catch-up week. There is only one conference I am doing for the rest of the year, CodeConnexx, though submissions for conferences in the first quarter of 2013 are happening, too....
View ArticleDon't miss these five (5) Continuent Tungsten talks at Percona Live London
Learn tips and tricks from the database replication and clustering stars: Future-Proofing MySQL for the World-Wide Data Revolution, by Robert Hodges Why, What, and How of Data Warehouses for MySQL, by...
View ArticleAnnouncing Percona Server 5.5.28-29.1
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.28-29.1 on October 26th, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.28, including...
View ArticleAnnouncing Percona Server 5.1.66-14.1
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.1.66-14.1 on October 26th, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.1.66, including...
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