Reading results of SHOW statements, on server side
SHOW statements are show stoppers on server side. While clients can get a SHOW statement as a result set just as any normal SELECT, things are not as such on server side. On server side, that is, from...
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My slides of MySQL Meetup Viadeo / LeMUG Paris
I was glad to present how to schedule and monitor mysqldump with ZRM community last week in Paris as part of the MySQL Meetup Viadeo / LeMUG You can find my slides below, enjoy ! : MYSQLDUMP & ZRM...
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Enhanced conflict resolution with MySQL Cluster active-active replication
Detecting conflicts Part of the latest MySQL Cluster Development Milestone Release (MySQL Cluster 7.2.1 – select the “Development Release” tab at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/cluster/#downloads) is a...
View ArticleSolving Cross-Site Data Management with Tungsten Geo-Clustering for MySQL -...
Spreading data across multiple sites solves some important problems, including ensuring business continuity, disaster recovery (DR) as well as availability of applications spread across the globe. Join...
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Using live code interrupts to produce stats which in turn improves code
How do you know that your code is fast? Is it fast for your test cases or is it fast for every case? When changes are made how does that affect your customers? How do you know over a period of time if...
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Database Chain
I was at an event recently and the topic of replication stirred the curiosity of the audience. A few audience members had Master to Master but they wanted to move away from that. Others had multiple...
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Simplified MySQL SSL connections
In last weeks OurSQL postcast (episode 65) Sheeri, Sarah and Jerry talked about making MySQL safe with SSL. Encryption always seems to be such a confusing subject. I think every database should be...
View ArticleGALERA on Red Hat is 1,2,3? (Part 1)
===================== Let me say NO, but nothing really bud just annoying and thanks to Oli (always great) less annoying then how it could be. Anyhow, I had to put all up in a RED HAT box on EC2. So I...
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New Euro Partnership offers safe-haven from US Patriot Act
New Euro Partnership offers safe-haven from US Patriot ActSeveralnines and City Network launch first fully European ‘Database as a Service’ STOCKHOLM and LONDON, 23rd November -Severalnines, provider...
View ArticlePerformance_schema considerations.
I have for the first time been spending some time trying to understand the performance_schema. It is not easy to understand everything unless you are very well-versed in server internals (what I am...
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Nov 23: At Cloud Camp Stockholm
I am Cloud Camp in Stockholm today. Some interesting ideas are bounced around, pretty cool stuff.One thing hit me today though: the lack in innovation, in IT as a whole and in databases in particular...
View ArticleWhat Makes a Schema good for Sharding
The ScaleBase Analysis tool gives a schema a grade between 1 and 100 for being “sharding compatible”. It’s a neat feature, but many ask me how the grade is calculated. Well – here goes. First of all, a...
View ArticleLast Day at PalominoDB
I have been the Community Liaison and a Senior DBA at PalominoDB for 15 months, and doing remote DBA work for 4 years. In that time I have learned that "consultant" need not be a dirty word, and that...
View ArticleSQL Locking and Transactions – OSDC 2011 video
This recent session at OSDC 2011 Canberra is based on part of an Open Query training day, and (due to time constraints) without much of the usual interactivity, exercises and further MySQL specific...
View ArticleBlack Friday / Cyber Monday Deal – 50% off on all products (expires Nov 28th,...
Happy Thanksgiving! Black Friday is back with a bang. Get a flat 50% discount on all Webyog products. Yes, you read it right, a flat fifty percent discount. Hurry, this offer expires Nov 28th, 23:59...
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Helgrinding MySQL with InnoDB for Synchronisation Errors, Fun and Profit
It is no secret that bugs related to multithreading–deadlocks, data races, starvations etc–have a big impact on application’s stability and are at the same time hard to find due to their...
View ArticleLog Buffer #247, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
Thanksgiving is here and the circular chain of thankfulness is going on. Clients are thankful that they have applications, applications are thankful to their databases, database are thankful to their...
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Speaking at Oracle UK User Group conference
I will be speaking in the MySQL track of the UK Oracle User Group conference on 5th December in Birmingham UK. The title of the session is "Building Highly Available and Scalable, Real Time Services...
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Cloud Tech Day in Stockholm Tue Nov 29
I'll be doing the keynote at Cloud Tech Day here in Stockholm on tuesday. I'll be speaking a bit about what Recorded Future is up to, about Clouds at Amazon and what it is like, about databases, like...
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Book review – Trust Agents by Chris Brogan & Julien Smith
Top ArticlesHow to hire a developer that doesn’t suck November 25, 2011First things first. This is not meant to be a beef against developers. But let’s not ignore the elephant in the living room that...
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