Log Buffer #240, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
With Oracle Open World in the offing, Oracle and MySQL bloggers and professionals are flocking to either San Fransisco or to their blogs to relish this annual medley of technologies under one roof....
View ArticleNew Episode of Oracle’s "Meet The MySQL Experts" Podcast Series
This month, Alex Roedling interviews Software Development Manager Reggie Burnett about MySQL on Windows. Reggie covers Connector/NET, integration with Visual Studio, MySQL Workbench, the new MySQL...
View ArticleThe mysqlnd replication plugin 1.1.0 release
PECL/mysqlnd_ms 1.1.0 (download) has been released (documentation)! It is a drop-in solution to add MySQL replication support to any PHP 5.3+ application using any of the PHP MySQL APIs (mysql,...
View ArticleThis week’s TGIF Percona Live ticket giveaway
It’s Friday again (already?) and as usual, we have a free ticket for Percona Live London. This time Tokutek is doing the honors of running the contest and selecting the winner. Instructions for...
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What's happened to the MySQL Storage Engine Vendor Advisory Board?
As most of you know, the Engine Vendor Advisory Board was setup by Oracle under terms that Oracle specified for themselves when acquiring MySQL. I am referring to point number 8, on the 10 point list...
View ArticleSpeaking at HighLoad conference, Moscow, Russia, Training and Hiring
I’m going to be speaking on Highload++ conference October 3,4 in Moscow, Russia. This is a great conference which gathers amazing quality of speakers from Russia and around the world and I usually...
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451 CAOS Links 2011.09.30
Microsoft’s Android revenue. Tizen formation. And more. # As Microsoft announced its latest Android-related patent agreement with Samsun, Goldman Sachs estimated that the company will make $444m in...
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Sending and Managing Email Accounts in a MySQL Database using Perl
A friend of mine has a small newsletter that he sends via email once a month. Initially, he was just blind-copying everyone on his list, but as the list grew, it was a pain for him to keep manually...
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Focus on MySQL | Oracle OpenWorld 2011
Oracle OpenWorld is just a few days away now!As a reminder, you can attend all of the Sunday MySQL sessions organized by IOUG and the MySQL community with a full OOW pass.The MySQL community reception...
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What can I DROP?
So you have inherited a MySQL server and no one know what applications are use what databases. Space is every tight and every night transactions logs almost fill your hard disk. The server was once...
View ArticleSetting up Perl on Windows for MySQL Scripts (mysqldumpslow,...
This article is just a how-to for setting up Perl on Windows in order to use the perl scripts provided with MySQL, such as mysqldumpslow.pl or mysql_explain_log.pl. Now, you might say there is a...
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CAOS Theory Podcast 2011.09.30
Topics for this podcast: *Cloud M&A potential around OpenStack *Oracle’s commercial extensions for MySQL *Puppet Labs rolls out Enterprise 2.0, hosts PuppetConf *Basho bolsters Riak distributed...
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My Talk on Sunday at Oracle Open World
Challenges of Big Databases with MySQL Many database management tasks become difficult as you move from millions of rows and gigabytes of data to billions of rows and terabytes of data. Such tasks...
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Open Source Hardware
Back in 2010 I stopped buying test servers from Dell and began building them from components using Intel i7 processors, X58-based mother boards, and modular power supplies from Ultra. It was a good...
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What about MySQL-Proxy
This post is not technical! Who knows me, knows that I am not a nasty person. I try to be polite and politically correct, and that has being a problem for me several times, because it pays only in...
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kiosk for MySQL Community
Oracle Open World is around the corner and the MySQL Community kiosk is ready to go. We are on par with IOUG, ODTUG and other groups. PlanetMySQL Voting: Vote UP / Vote DOWN
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Symfony 2 and mysqlnd
In a previous blog posting I was mentioning that I'm working on a small hobby PHP project. As I'm using this project to update myself to current frameworks I've decided to use Symfony 2. Symfony...
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Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On Fedora 15
Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On Fedora 15 Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich...
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MySQL Community Presentation at Oracle Open World
The MySQL Community Sessions at Oracle are going great. Good crowds, lots of questions about MySQL at the kiosk, and great presentations. Here Sarah Novotny gets camera time. I am not sure if her new...
View ArticleSpeaking at Percona Live London 2011 (on Drizzle!)
Both Henrik and myself will be at Percona Live London 2011 in late October speaking on the wonderful Drizzle database server. Other speakers at the conference will be talking about a wide range of...
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