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18 LAMP Security Tips for MySQL
Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP — altogether they mean LAMP. I’m not talking about watts and bulbs. And if you desire is for a comprehensive, robust server, your IT infrastructure has to include all of...
View ArticleSlides for Choosing a MySQL High Availability solution
Here are the slides to my first talk at Percona Live UK 2011: Choosing a MySQL High Availability solution.1 1. See this for a review of the conference as a whole:...
View ArticleYour web platform runs on an Oracle database? You must be Nuts! – Part 2
This is the second blog post in a series designed to assist companies who wish to migrate their code from Oracle to MySQL. In the first post of the series I tried to explain why you would like your web...
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Fixed in Drizzle or just different?
In a previous post about different output for the same query there were 3 databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite) and 3 different results.I attended the "Fixed in Drizzle: No more GOTCHA's" talk...
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MySQL Thread Pool: Storage Engines
I got a question from the NDB folks that are currently adapting MySQL Cluster toMySQL 5.5 about whether any special developments are needed to adapt the NDBstorage engine for use with the thread pool....
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The Big Data Community at the MassTLC unConference
I had the pleasure of being invited to blog at the MassTLC unConference on Friday. The event was a full day of diverse topics and discussions ranging from the latest in recipe sharing sites, to...
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451 CAOS Links 2011.11.01
Appcelerator raises $15m. Hortonworks launches Data Platform. And more. # Appcelerator raised $15m in a third round led by Mayfield Fund, Translink Capital and Red Hat. # Modo Labs closed a $4m...
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MySQL Connector/Python bug category on bugs.mysql.com
In addition to reporting MySQL Connector/Python bugs on Launchpad, it is now also possible to enter them using http://bugs.mysql.com. PlanetMySQL Voting: Vote UP / Vote DOWN
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MySQL Enterprise Backup Part II
Last time I used MySQL Enterprise Backup to save an entire database. Now it is time to test that backup. The first step is to shutdown the MySQL server using mysqladmin. bin# ./mysqlbackup...
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Now available: Slides from Percona Live and Linuxcon Europe
The slides from last week’s talks I (co-)presented at Percona Live and Linuxcon Europe are now available from our web site. In my tutorial MySQL High Availability Sprint: Launch the Pacemaker, I gave a...
View ArticleAnnouncing PalominoDB's Non Profit Program
I've always had a dream of being able to use what we are doing at PalominoDB not only for our for profit clients, but for those who go out day to day helping those who need it. We always try to work...
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Proxy Trace Revisited with MySQL Proxy 0.8.2
Back in January 2010, I wrote an article titled Proxy Trace : Tracing the Variables and Functions Available within MySQL Proxy. That post was basically a lua script I posted which traces the steps of...
View ArticleMySQL Cluster, and NoSQL
Those are the topics we cover in the latest episode of our “Meet The MySQL Experts” podcast. Mat Keep and Bernd Ocklin talk about new database requirements, and walk us through what's new in the...
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MongoDB for MySQL folks part 3 - More on queries and indexes
Last time I wrote about MongoDB for MySQL DBAs I described some of the basics of MongoDB querying, and this time I'll follow that up with some more on querying.As we saw last time, the basic format of...
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Clouds in Stockholm
I'll be at Cloud Camp here in Stockholm on November 23. Some familiar faces will be there, beyond yours truly then. I will discuss and present some real-live Database Cloud experiences, but as this is...
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Checking on the Progress of Large DML Commands in MySQL Using Perl – Part One
Part One of Two: Checking on database activity when running a large DML (Data Manipulation Language) statement – such as INSERT, DELETE, UPDATE or SELECT. Part One: Inserting a million rows into a...
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MySQL Windows Users – Use Grep to Search MySQL Source Code
For Windows users, if you try searching the MySQL source code for various strings, you know you will often come up empty with the built-in Windows search. It wasn’t too long ago and I was searching the...
View ArticleHow to recreate an InnoDB table after the tablespace has been removed
Does your error log ever get flooded with errors like this one? [ERROR] MySQL is trying to open a table handle but the .ibd file for table my_schema/my_logging_table doesnot exist. Have you deleted...
View ArticleReal-Time, Open Source Replication Between MySQL and Oracle - Webinar 11/10
MySQL users are used to outstanding replication between servers, starting with MySQL's native replication and now using the high-performance, open source Tungsten Replicator. But what about moving data...
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Coming to a MySQL® Meet-up Near You
If you're one of those that thinks that HA is all about MySQL Replication, or if you've tried to alter your tables to NDB to drink at the holy grail of shared nothing architectures, SkySQL has got a...
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