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Percona Server 5.1.52-rel11.6
Percona Server version 5.1.52-rel11.6 is now available for download. The main purpose of this release is to update the current Percona stable release to the latest version of MySQL 5.1. Functionality...
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Developer Week in Review
If you live in the U.S., this is the week to gorge on turkey. I wondered out loud last night to my wife if Thanksgiving is the day of the year when the most people eat the same meal. Can any of our...
View ArticleMy Review of MySQL High Availability
Originally submitted at O’Reilly Server bottlenecks and failures are a fact of life in any database deployment, but they don’t have to bring everything to a halt. MySQL provides several features that...
View Article2.0.1 Community Release for Windows Available
With the 2.0.1 Community maintenance release, the 64-bit and 32-bit Windows Community release is now available as well. This release includes a number of bug fixes that you can see at...
View ArticleLeaving MariaDB/Monty Program
Last week I announced internally that after my paternity leave ends next year, I will not be returning to Monty Program. When I joined the company over a year ago I was immediately involved in drafting...
View ArticleBlack Friday / Cyber Monday Deal – 50% off on all products! (valid only till...
Happy Thanksgiving! Black Friday is back with a bang! We are happy to offer a 50% flat discount on all Webyog products. Hurry up, this offer is valid only till 29th Nov 10, 23:59 PST. Still using...
View ArticleRecommended reading: Control and Community by The 451 Group
The 451 Group's annual report on the state of the open source business world is out. Already the title: Control and Community suggests they are once again on top of what has been going on this year....
View ArticleLog Buffer #207, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
Everyone loves the colorful and easy lighting fire logs you can buy in the store for between $3-5, and from our feedback we are savoring the fact that everyone also adores the vibrant and flamboyant...
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Webinar: Introduction to Percona Server, XtraDB and Xtrabackup
We’ve had such a large number of signups to our Migrating MyISAM to InnoDB webinar, that we decided to hold one more before the year is out: December, 8th 9AM PST: Introduction to Percona Server,...
View ArticleInnobase 1.1.1 in Drizzle
Our innobase plugin in Drizzle is now based on Innobase 1.1.1 from MySQL 5.5.5-m3. This brings all the great new improvements from the Innobase team to Drizzle. PlanetMySQL Voting: Vote UP / Vote DOWN
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Perl is probably a fine scripting language, but on Windows...
Please do not assume Perl is always installed on all platforms. In particular not on Windows! Just as it is probably a bad idea to assume that Windows DOS commands work on Linux! Come on now!Why am I...
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A world of ebooks
I am a bibliophile, or, to say it in plain English, a book lover. I have been collecting books since I was in first grade. I read books at high speed, which is both a blessing and a curse. A blessing,...
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Dispelling some unintentional MySQL FUD
There are three types of FUD: the first and more genuine is (#1) the intentional spreading of falsehood, mostly to gain some marketing advantage over a competing product. While I despise this...
View ArticleDownloading, compiling, and installing MySQL Server from source code
Have you ever tried compiling MySQL server from source code? If you have not but want to, here are some easy steps to do so on a Debian/Ubuntu Linux machine. These instructions should work on other...
View ArticlePythian at UKOUG Technology and E-Business Suite Conference 2010
Hello Birmingham! It’s past Sunday midnight and I’m stuck in my room in the last couple hours finishing my slides for my masterclass tomorrow. Turns out that I’m presenting the very first session of...
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A more complete look at Storage Engine API
Okay… So I’ve blogged many times before about the Storage Engine API in Drizzle. This API is somewhat inherited from MySQL. We have very much attempted to make it a much cleaner interface. Our goals in...
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Adopting RAD in the Enterprise: The 14 Biggest Misconceptions
Rapid Application Development (RAD) is a way of developing computer software applications with less effort than the traditional means. RAD tools focus on providing code generation and automated testing...
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Announcement: MyQuery 3.4.1 Released
MyQuery 4version 3.4.1 is now released on Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/myquery/. This is a pretty minor release with just a few fixes, but the first of them pretty significant:Windows 7...
View ArticleMySQL open files limit: open-files-limit vs open_files_limit on Linux
Did you think that underscores and hyphens in MySQL server option names can be used interchangeably in configuration file? Read this tutorial to find out about an exception to this general...
View ArticleThis Wednesday: Free MySQL talks at the UKOUG Conference in Birmingham (UK)
Hello from Birmingham, UK! I'm here to attend and speak at the UKOUG Technology & E-Business Suite 2010 conference (what a name!) We actually have two packed tracks of MySQL Sessions this...
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