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Monday, August 25, 2008

Slides of my FrOSCon presentations

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Thanks to all who attended my talks at FrOSCon 2008 . It was a pleasurable experience, as it has always been in the past. The slides of my ...

The ephemeral glory of books

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A picture says it all. Special offers at a FrOSCon books booth. For how long is an IT book in its prime?
Thursday, August 21, 2008

MySQL at FrOSCon 2008

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MySQL will be well represented at FrOSCon 2008 . August 23-24 2008 . This will be my third presence there as a speaker. I fondly remember th...
Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Editing a dump file from the airport

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Keith Murphy asks if you have ever edited your dump files before feeding them to the database. And he recommends using sed . This reminds m...
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Sunday, August 03, 2008

The database hacker glossary and other (funny) stories

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Every year, MySQL engineers gather together for the developers meeting. It's the time of the highest productivity and fun at the same ti...
Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Don't guess. Test! - A sample database with test suite

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Some time ago, with the help of Patrick Crews, I built a sample database for testing. Now this database is published as a stand-alone projec...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

OSCON in pictures

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There was a huge Sun booth at OSCON 2008. During opening hours, there were always sessions at the booth, with well known open source present...
Saturday, July 26, 2008

Julian Cash at OSCON 2008

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Julian Cash is well known, among other things, for being the photographer of the open source communities, as you can see from his photo stre...
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Friday, July 25, 2008

OSCON 2008 - MySQL Proxy - from architecture to implementation

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The presentation about MySQL Proxy at OSCON 2008 is over. Here are the slides . Thanks to my co-presenter Ronald Bradford and to all the par...
Monday, July 21, 2008

Some quirks of circular and row-based replication

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One of the new features introduced by MySQL 5.1 is row-based replication. Unlike the classic statement-based replication, used in MySQL up t...
Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Proxy webinar - slides, script, FAQ

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We did it. Designing Scalable Architectures with MySQL Proxy was delivered successfully, with over 150 attendees. There is a large number o...
Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Shaping the future of MySQL Proxy

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Here is a chance for all users to influence the future development of MySQL Proxy . If you care about Proxy, you may want to check the curre...
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Monday, July 07, 2008

Even faster online backup!

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I discussed my findings with Guilhem Bichot, one of the online backup creators, and he remarks: You could also try export MYISAM_BACKUP_NO...

Faster online backup with MyISAM driver

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Remember the first test of online backup ? I tested the new feature, which was performing quite well, compared to mysqldump. OK. Get ready f...
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008

MySQL Sandbox 2.0 has been released

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Taking advantage of Launchpad excellent development services, I completed the tasks necessary to release MySQL Sandbox 2.0 . So, you may as...
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OSCON 2008 - Getting in touch with the open source makers

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For some reasons, I have never been able to attend OSCON so far. I have been going to the MySQL Users Conference almost every year in April...
Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Looking back at the first half year

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Half a year has gone, most of it with my new company, Sun Microsystems.Kaj has made a detailed digest of his first half. I took the DBA app...
Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Scalable architectures with MySQL Proxy

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MySQL community, mark your calendars!. On July 8th, 2008, there is a Webinar on Designing scalable architectures with MySQL Proxy . This is ...
Friday, June 20, 2008

MySQL Sandbox - planning for 2.0

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Taking advantage of Launchpad environment, I started paving the way for version 2.0 of MySQL Sandbox . I opened a new branch for version 2....
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Thursday, June 19, 2008

From Bazaar to Sandbox in 5 moves

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Now that MySQL has switched its development to Bazaar , we can play a bit with the new tools. One thing that I have tried immediately upon ...
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