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Cloud Migration Whitepapers
Amazon's AWS team has published a series of whitepapers covering various scenarios for migrating into AWS cloud infrastructure. Links to these whitepapers are provided below for your convenience:-...
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Doing Re-run of Migrating MyISAM to Innodb Webinar
We had some technical difficulties with Webex today which prevented from all registered attendees to be able to join webinar. I personally would be very upset having booked my time to attend event,...
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Video: Netflix's migration to AWS cloud
Found this video regarding Netflix's migration to Amazon's AWS cloud very informative. Enjoy! PlanetMySQL Voting: Vote UP / Vote DOWN
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LINBIT Technical Guides now available on our web site
If you run (or plan to deploy) high availability clusters — with or without DRBD — you might find a new section on our web site handy. Our Technical Guides collection is a compilation of LINBIT expert...
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Working with MySQL on Windows - Part 1
This is the first post in an attempt to write about how to get along with MySQL on Windows. Before I start, I want to stress that the focus here is seasoned Windows users getting started with MySQL. As...
View ArticleMariaDB And Trademark
I’d like to wish Henrik Ingo well now that he has publicly announced his resignation from Monty Program. Henrik, I especially wish you all the best with the new member of your family. I know you put a...
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I’d like to wish Henrik Ingo well now that he has publicly announced his resignation from Monty Program. Henrik, I especially wish you all the best with the new member of your family. I know you put a...
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GigaOm Net:Work Conference - Dec 9
I only recently found out about GigaOm's upcoming Net:Work conference. It's held December 9 at UCSF Mission Bay conference center. While the name of the conference is a bit ambiguous, the actual...
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Aussies and Kiwis, last chance for Early Bird discount for Brisbane
If you live in Australia or New Zealand, and are considering to attend our DRBD Total 4-day class in Brisbane in January, please remember that today (Friday Dec 3) is your last chance to grab your 10%...
View ArticleMySQL Gotchas on Debian (and Ubuntu)
Blue Gecko works with clients who run many different operating systems. Our preference generally is RedHat Enterprise Linux or CentOS, but we have customers who range far and wide from there including...
View ArticleMySQL At Scale – Zynga Games
Recently am part of Zynga‘s database team as I was pretty much impressed with company’s database usage. As everyone knows how popular Zynga games like Farmville, Cafe World, Mafia Wars, Poker,...
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Who's afraid of MySQL forks?
There is much talk about MySQL forks and how they are going to replace MySQL, or take over MySQL user base, or become more powerful/profitable/popular/you-name-it than MySQL itself.Let's clear some...
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Sequoia backs MongoDB with $6.5M investment
Some exciting news coming from 10Gen, the company behind MongoDB. It announced today that Seqouia is investing $6.5M in it's high performance, document-oriented (BSON), key-value based NoSQL solution...
View ArticleOracle's open source missteps continue with Hudson project
Oracle hasn't won many friends in open source communities since its acquisition of Sun Microsystems and Sun's array of open source assets, including MySQL, Java, and OpenOffice. Oracle seems bent on...
View ArticleFree MySQL event in São Paulo, Brasil (December 8th)
As part of the upcoming Oracle OpenWorld/Java One in São Paulo, Brazil next week (which will also include MySQL-related sessions), there will be a free MySQL Community event, which will take place on...
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Hosteurope.de refuses to serve mysql clients in the USA
So I’m looking for virtual servers in Europe for a new Python+MySQL based application and I found a provider with some good prices (Hosteurope.de). So I select the VM that I desire and go to the order...
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451 CAOS Links 2010.12.03
New CEOs for Funambol and Openbravo. Funding for 10gen. And more. Follow 451 CAOS Links live @caostheory on Twitter and Identi.ca, and daily at Paper.li/caostheory “Tracking the open source news wires,...
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My picks for PGDay-EU 2010
On Sunday I will be in Stuttgart with the double purpose of attending the annual European PostrgreSQL conference and the technical meeting of my company that will be held after the normal proceedings...
View ArticleGroup commit in PostgreSQL
There are three active projects to add support for group commit to MySQL/InnoDB. Monty Program and MySQL appear to have work in progress. The Facebook version is done but we will gladly undo it when...
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The PERFORMANCE SCHEMA is dead, long live the performance schema
The PERFORMANCE SCHEMA is dead The initial implementation of the performance schema used to name tables in the performance schema database in UPPERCASE, as in 'EVENTS_WAITS_CURRENT'. This naming scheme...
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