Pictures from OpenSQLCamp Boston 2010
I have not seen folks posting any pics they took at OpenSQLCamp here, so I will post the few I have -- I have a few pictures of the Indexing Panel on Saturday (the participants and some audience...
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Book review: MySQL 5.1 plugin development
MySQL 5.1 Plugin Development, by Sergei Golubchik and Andrew Hutchings.Packt Publishing, 2010.Executive summary: Highly recommended. If you want to develop MySQL extensions, buy this book. It's a...
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Call for Papers: "MySQL and Friends" Developer Room at FOSDEM 2011...
It's that time of the year again — the nice folks at FOSDEM have granted us a developer room at their upcoming conference (February 5+6 2011 in Brussels, Belgium)!As usual there were more applications...
View ArticleSemi-Synchronous Replication in MySQL 5.5
As I was digging into the change logs for MySQL 5.5 and the replication substructure, I ran into the new features of semi-synchronous replication. This is implemented in MySQL 5.5 with the master...
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Baron Schwartz interviewed on WebPulp.tv
There’s an interview with Baron Schwartz (that’s me) on WebPulp.tv. Topics include the history of Percona’s software such as Percona Server (our version of the MySQL database server) and XtraBackup,...
View ArticleHow to Stop Hating MySQL
Last week my presentation from PICC10 on "How to Stop Hating MySQL" was uploaded to YouTube. PICC10 (Professional IT Community Conference) was held May 7-8 in New Brunswick, NJ. The video can be...
View ArticleMySQL conference CfP extended
I don’t think this was widely publicized, but the Call for Proposals for the MySQL (and beyond) conference was extended a few days. It’ll be open through November 3rd. Related posts:O’Reilly MySQL...
View ArticleLeft MySQL/Joined CouchOne
For many people this will be old news, but I guess It thought I should put up something official. At the end of September, I left MySQL/Sun/Oracle – that wasn’t an easy decision, mostly because I loved...
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QA at Continuent. A serendipitous job.
A few days ago, I left the MySQL team at Oracle, after more than 4 years of work dedicated mostly to the MySQL community.Someone will probably remember that, when I joined MySQL in 2006, I started my...
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451 CAOS Links 2010.11.02
JCP election results. Funding for Acquia and Continuent. Fedora 14. And more. Follow 451 CAOS Links live @caostheory on Twitter and Identi.ca, and daily at Paper.li/caostheory “Tracking the open source...
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MySQL Cluster Manager 1.1 available!
As the title of this post suggests, MySQL Cluster Manager 1.1 is now available – but this actually has a double meaning: MySQL Cluster Manager 1.1 is GA (I’ll explain below the major improvements over...
View ArticleMixed ASC/DESC sorting in MySQL
From Stack Overflow: I have a table of blog posts, each with a foreign key back to it’s author. There are less than 15,000 entries in this table. This query scans over 19,000 rows (per EXPLAIN),...
View ArticleProducts that scale linearly to hundreds of servers
I see this all the time: [product] scales linearly to hundreds of servers I haven’t seen a benchmark yet that’s truly a straight line. I would like to see one. Related posts:How to scale writes with...
View ArticleGetting ready for a new innotop release
It’s been ages since we’ve had an update to innotop, or at least, it’s been a while since the changes were bundled up and released officially. Barring any bug reports against the trunk code, I’m about...
View ArticleMySQL terminology: processes, threads & connections
There’s some confusion in the MySQL terminology for processes, threads & connections, which I will try to resolve. I can’t explain the full nature of what processes and threads are; please see...
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Facebook Live: Running MySQL at Scale Tech Talk by Facebook
Thank you to Domas, Mark, the cool team of DB Dudes at Facebook and to Facebook for hosting a spectacular event of beer, wine and of course mySQL.Here are some notes that I'd like to share and here is...
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Developer Week in Review
Here's your weekly helping of developer info: The sudden but inevitable Apple news Several pieces of news on the Apple front this week. First up: the Gold Master seed (which either sounds like...
View ArticleLinks: Andy Updegrove on the trend of Foundations, LWN.net on OpenSQLCamp,
Links for today: Community Rights and Community Wrongs The Launch of the Document Foundation and the Oxymoron of Corporate Controlled "Community" Projects Andy Updegrove makes observations of the trend...
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DiskPageBufferMemory tuning and disk data statistics in MySQL Cluster 7.1.9
From MySQL Cluster 7.1.9 (not yet released) it is possible to get better stats on disk data tables. In fact, the statistics makes it possible to tune the DiskPageBufferMemory parameter (similar to...
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MySQL Workbench Plugin: Auto-Create Foreign Keys
To automatically create Foreign Key relationships is a typical use case for developers working with the MyISAM storage engine. This has been a popular topic on the Blog and forums so we’re revisiting...
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