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Report from Barcamp Johor Bahru
This weekend, I decided to attend BarcampJB pretty last minute. Lucky for me, barcamps are made for chaotics like me, so it was no problem at all. I found some friends that live here in Kuala Lumpur...
View ArticleDatabases: Normalization or Denormalization. Which is the better technique?
This has really been a long debate as to which approach is more performance orientated, normalized databases or denormalized databases. So this article is a step on my part to figure out the right...
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The return of the MySQL developer meeting
Just in case it wasn't clear from Hakan's post, we are opening up the next Monty Program company meeting in October 7-12 to be a general MariaDB developers meeting. (In fact, we've had a few guests in...
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[MySQL][Spider][VP][Other]Spider-2.22 VP-0.11 BKA-for-ha_partition-0.3 released
I'm pleased to announce the release of Spider storage engine version 2.22(beta), Vertical Partitioning storage engine version 0.11(beta) and BKA-for-ha_partition version 0.3.Spider is a Storage Engine...
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MySQL Connector/Net 6.0.7 has been released
MySQL Connector/Net 6.0.7, a new version of the all-managed .NET driver for MySQL has been released. This is a maintenance release of the 6.0 branch and is suitable for use with MySQL server versions...
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MySQL Connector/Net 6.1.5 has been released
MySQL Connector/Net 6.1.5, a new version of the all-managed .NET driver for MySQL has been released. This is a maintenance release of the 6.1 branch and is suitable for use with MySQL server versions...
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MySQL GIS – Part 2
TweetThe “DATA” “The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.” – Grace Hopper A Shape file is the most common format for GIS vector data and just about every...
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MySQL Connector/Net 6.2.4 Maintenance release
We’re happy to announce the latest maintenance release of MySQL Connector/Net 6.2.4. Version 6.2.4 maintenance release includes: Enhancement that allows a procedure to be recreated with a different...
View Articledbbenchmark.com – MySQL benchmarking now supports multiple threads!
We had a very successful weekend of Planet.mysql users submitting their database statistics so I’ve pushed some code into a new release today so that everyone can benefit from some new features. The...
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Easy Python: multi-threading MySQL queries
There are many times when writing an application that single threaded database operations are simply too slow. In these cases it’s a matter of course that you’ll use multi-threading or forking to spawn...
View Articledbbenchmark.com – Debian Lenny, MEMORY_ACTIVE bug fix
Quick solution to an issue that the affected Debian Lenny release: the process used to collect the MEMORY_ACTIVE_BYTES variable has been modified to correct a situation where some systems report an...
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How To: Create a Query in One Shot
To get information from a database it is necessary to execute a query to get this data. Usually an ordinary SQL editor is used to create queries. To use such editor, one should remember the syntax of...
View ArticleNice BTRFS webinar by Oracle
Last week I followed an very interesting ORACLE webinar delivered by Chris Mason : The State of Btrfs File System for Linux BTRFS was initiated by Chris Mason who used to be responsible for Reiserfs at...
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Cloud Insight: HP, Dell, 3PAR, VMWare & ScaleDB
The bidding war between HP and Dell for 3PAR has created great theater. The rationale is simple, both HP and Dell want a complete set of products to sell into the new cloud space and 3PAR is the only...
View ArticleDo you use MySQL replication? Do you use “FLUSH LOGS”? If yes you might want...
Scenario: Master-Master replication Description: Master A is the active db server whilst Master B is a read only swappable db server hence both are creating binary logs. During backup I run “FLUSH...
View ArticleWelcome to Oracle's MySQL Blog
Are you thinking...not one more blog, please! We have received a lot of feedback that we at Oracle need to be more vocal about our investment and progress with MySQL. The MySQL team at Oracle is very...
View Articledbbenchmark.com – MySQL benchmarking now with FreeBSD support
The development cycle is moving right along for the community’s newest MySQL benchmarking script. I’m pleased to announce that we now officially support FreeBSD (version 8.1 tested) so go ahead and...
View ArticleAsterisk attack
There was a lot of talk about this being the next menace after email spam. I’m not actually sure what it’s called for VoIP systems, but my Asterisk setup has started to be attacked over the last few...
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Marten Mickos to Keynote at MySQL Sunday
On September 19, 2010, Oracle is hosting MySQL Sunday, a half-day technical conference jam-packed with the latest on MySQL, the world's most popular open source database. The sessions will offer you...
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Introducing tcprstat, a TCP response time tool
Ignacio Nin and I (mostly Ignacio) have worked together to create tcprstat[1], a new tool that times TCP requests and prints out statistics on them. The output looks somewhat like vmstat or iostat, but...
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