Moving from MySQL to CouchDB: Part 2
The follow-up blog post on moving your MySQL applications to CouchDB has been posted on the CouchOne blog. Part 2 digs into a bit more detail on the specifics of views, and how to perform some of the...
View ArticleMySQL Connector/Python 0.3.0 has been released!
MySQL Connector/Python 0.3.0, a development release, is available for download: https://launchpad.net/myconnpy/+download Since version 0.3.0 is still a development release, or ‘alpha’, it is not...
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MySQL Cluster session and demo booth at OOW Beijing
I’ll be presenting on MySQL Cluster at Oracle OpenWorld in Beeijing next week – the conference runs from 13th through to 16th December, you can register here. The MySQL Cluster session is on Thursday...
View ArticleTechnology Update on MySQL: Dec. 15, 10am US PT
Please join us at 10am US PT on Dec. 15th as we provide an important technology update on MySQL. In this live webcast, Tomas Ulin, VP MySQL development and Rob Young, Senior Product Manager, will...
View ArticleMariaDB and TokuDB
I was happy to see the announcement yesterday from Tokutek regarding their addition of MariaDB to their list of supported platforms for the TokuDB storage engine. One particular item in the press...
View ArticleShinguz's Blog (en): MySQL logon and logoff trigger for auditing
I while ago I did some research about MySQL audit functionality and logon a and logoff triggers. MySQL and MariaDB provide a logon trigger in the form of the init_connect variable but no logoff trigger...
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CAOS Theory Podcast 2010.12.10
Topics for this podcast: *Oracle, Java, the Apache Software Foundation and open source *An update on some open source database and data management players *CorraTech grows with support for open source...
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MySQL Partitioning – can save you or kill you
I wanted for a while to write about using MySQL Partitioning for Performance Optimization and I just got a relevant customer case to illustrate it. First you need to understand how partitions work...
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running mysql with “memlock”
The documentation says that we need to run mysql as “root” user for it to be effective. The code also indicates the same thing where it tries to do a getuid call to check if the server is running as...
View ArticleDrizzle, now with more dump
Too far? Well it's a bit true really :) Over the past several weeks, Andrew and the Drizzle team have been working on squashing quite a few bugs with drizzzledump, Drizzle's own advanced version of...
View ArticleTesting LAMP Applications
I will present on "Testing LAMP Applications" at the O'Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo 2011:Proper interaction with relational databases is incredibly important in most pieces of software. The...
View ArticleNew chance for crashed (port 3307) db4free.net server
One month ago I set up a new MySQL 5.5 db4free.net server instance, after the old instance started to keep crashing. Since then, the former user database server has run on port 3307 to give people a...
View ArticleInnobase 1.1.3 in Drizzle
In case you haven’t heard yet, I’ve merged in the latest InnoDB from MySQL 5.5.7 into Drizzle. The innobase plugin is now based on InnoDB 1.1.3. This gets a lot of bug fixes and improvements from 1.1.2...
View ArticleLog Buffer #209, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
Welcome to Log Buffer, the weekly news update of happenings in the database world. A big shout out to Pythian team members Andrey, Gwen, Fahd, and Don for their submissions. We have lots of news and...
View ArticlePersistent index statistics for InnoDB
In browsing the BZR tree for lp:mysql-server, I noticed some rather exciting code had been merged into the Innobase code. You may be aware that InnoDB will do some index dives when opening a table to...
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Interested in Sponsoring Tungsten Open Source Features?
Over the last few months I have been pleasantly surprised by the number of people using open source builds of Tungsten. My company, Continuent, has therefore started to offer support for open source...
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DuckDuckGo and Web of Trust have a trust metric partnership
There are two search engines that have promise that made themselves public in 2010: DuckDuckGo and Blekko. DuckDuckGo has active search spam removal, you can access it via secure HTTP (HTTPS), and is a...
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Percona XtraBackup 1.5-Beta
Percona XtraBackup 1.5-Beta is now available for download. This release adds additional functionality to Percona XtraBackup 1.4, the current general availability version of XtraBackup. This is a beta...
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Percona Server 5.1.52-12.3
Percona Server version 5.1.52-12.3 is now available for download. The main purpose of this release is to update the current Percona release candidate to the latest version of MySQL 5.1. The release...
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Linux-HA documentation updates
I’ve just announced a rather large update to the Linux-HA documentation. We now finally have a Developer’s Guide for OCF resource agent authors and contributors. If you want to write a new resource...
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