The state of MySQL forks: co-operating without co-operating
Giuseppe "The Data Charmer" Maxia recently posted his take on the MySQL forks. I had been pondering whether to do the same, and seeing that what I planned to write will nicely complement Giuseppe's...
View ArticleConnector/J 5.1
Connector/J 5.1 (5.1.14 GA, published on Monday, 06 Dec 2010)PlanetMySQL Voting: Vote UP / Vote DOWN
View ArticleReplication log inside InnoDB
The MySQL replication system has always had the replication log (“binlog”) as a separate set of files on disk. Originally, this really didn’t matter as, well, MyISAM wasn’t transactional or crash safe...
View ArticleLog Buffer #208, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
Welcome to Log Buffer, the weekly round up of news and happenings in the database world. We’re planning our publishing calendar for 2011. Happy to announce that we’ll have a few guest hosts in the New...
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Excluding databases from mysqldump
A question that came up during the MySQL track at the UKOUG conference in Birmingham was "Can I exclude only a few databases from mysqldump? Let's say that I have 50 databases, and I want to dump all...
View ArticleEscaping “Lesson Learned” dealing with MySQL Databases & Case Sensitiviy
Do you ever need to transfer databases between servers? Different OSes? Two common ways of data migration: 1. Create mysqldump and load it. 2. File transfer using SCP. Case Sensitivity... Related...
View ArticleLOB storage in MySQL and Postgres
How do InnoDB and Postgres store large columns? Both use overflow pages for rows with large columns and support compression. Postgres is more likely to store large columns in overflow pages and InnoDB...
View ArticleAwesome Postgres/MySQL cross-pollination
There have been a few great blog posts recently from MySQL bloggers about Postgres, and vice versa, with good comments and follow-on from the real experts in both systems. I think this is wonderful....
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Disaster @ Tumblr
Tumblr has been down for more than 12 hours due to an issue with their database cluster. Here is the comment I left on GigaOm.comThis is the freshest lesson for entrepreneurs and startups:- Learn to...
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Oracle Open World / Java One 2010 Brazil Day 0 Pictures
First set of pictures from Oracle Open World, Oracle Develop, and JavaOne 2010 in Brazil ... And a picture from dinner with local Java champions and JUG leaders of Brazil ...Looking forward to meet...
View ArticleWhere’s my cnf file?
So you have a running MySQL server, it’s working well and everyone’s happy. You want to make a minor change to the configuration file, so you edit the file, restart MySQL – but the change doesn’t...
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Christmas @ MariaDB
The Danish "julehjerte" is apparently a Danish/Northern Europe Christmas tradition (at least according to Wikipedia). But hopefully people outside this region will also be able to enjoy this variant:...
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451 CAOS Links 2010.12.07
The future of Java. Google releases Gingerbread. 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, so you...
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We’re reaching out to Australia and New Zealand!
At LINBIT, we are always eager to extend our partnerships and cooperations with technical consultants, service professionals, and sysadmins. So if you work for a company that might be interested in...
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Oracle Open World / Java One 2010 Brazil Day 1 Trip Report
Oracle Open World 2010 Latin America was kick started this morning by Oracle's President Mark Hurd. Later Adam Messinger's (Vice President in Fusion Middleware group at Oracle) keynote started JavaOne...
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Stripped MySQL builds, the optimization that isn’t
I usually tell people to use official MySQL builds from MySQL, or from their operating system distribution if they don't want to do that. (This assumes that there is no compelling reason to use...
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Speaking at MySQL Meetup event in NYC, December 15
I'm going to be in NY next week and as part of the meeting I agreed to speak on New York MySQL Meetup. I'm going to speak about Scaling MySQL driven applications by us of caching, replication, sharding...
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SEO / SEM SWOT
Since most of my friends here have asked me questions on SEO. I thought i'd share this presentation that I posted on SlideShare. This was a pre-engagement presentation. It contains over a 100 slides...
View ArticleHowto setup MySQL on a DRBD volume
One more DRBD tutorial, this time I will describe howto setup MySQL with DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Device). Purpose This document describes how to to setup a failover system with MySQL and...
View ArticleMySQL Workbench 5.2.31 GA Available
We’re proud to announce the next release of MySQL Workbench, version 5.2.31. This is a maintenance release focusing on general product improvement and usability. We managed to close 97 bugs for this...
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