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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Test driving the Spider storage engine - sharding for the masses

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At the MySQL Conference 2009 I attended a session about the Spider storage engine , an engine with built-in sharding features. The talk was...
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MySQL community and sushi

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Now, relax. This is not haircut blogging . There is actually a true relationship between MySQL Community and sushi. Just bear with me for a ...
Monday, April 27, 2009

MySQL 5.4 performance with logging

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About a month ago, I published the results of MySQL 5.x performance with logging . The results covered several versions, from 5.0.45 to 5.1....
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Friday, April 17, 2009

MySQL Campus tour at USC - Slow start, brilliant ending

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The Southern California branch of the MySQL Campus Tour is almost over. At the USC, attendance was very good, and even better was the enthu...
Thursday, April 16, 2009

Gurus show at the Los Angeles Meetup - April 17

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If you are in the Los Angeles area, you have two more chances to meet the MySQL gurus on their way to the the MySQL Conference . Today at th...

Quiet excitement at UCLA

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The second leg of the Southern California MySQL Campus Tour was at UCLA . There was less attendance than Cal Poly. Only 22 brave souls who ...
Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Cal Poly - A success

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The MySQL Campus Tour 2009 started very well at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA. Despite the warm day, which would have tempted many attendee...
Monday, April 13, 2009

MySQL Campus Tour - South California

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The MySQL Campus Tour got reinforcements. Dups is not alone anymore. He is being joined by Colin and Farhan . Sheeri and yours truly are ...
Saturday, April 11, 2009

MySQL Sandbox 3 - Now feature complete

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MySQL Sandbox 2.0.98i is now feature complete. The most notable additions are a robust test suite, with over 120 tests, and some features ...
Thursday, April 02, 2009

MySQL Sandbox even more sandboxed

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In the late evening of March 31st I had a good coding session with MySQL Sandbox. I implemented a feature that has been in the wish list for...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Query Analyzer features integrated in MySQL Sandbox

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Community strikes. It was about time that someone provided a match for MySQL Query Analyzer, the flagship feature of MySQL Enterprise. Now M...
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Monday, March 30, 2009

New version of employees test DB

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The Employees Test database has been updated. There was a subtle bug in the data. One employee was assigned to two departments with the sa...
Sunday, March 29, 2009

MySQL Sandbox approaching version 3

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MySQL Sandbox is approaching another milestone. Preparing for version 3.0, which will include some new features, version 2.0.98 (based on 2...
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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Forums are for sissies. The next thing is Twitter

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Once upon a time, if you had a problem with, say, Perl, you went to a forum , checked the forum rules, signed up, and asked a question, whic...

Another command line tip

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Encouraged by Baron Schwartz tip on result set comparison , here are a few more, on the same vein. First, you can send a result set to a fi...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

MySQL 5.x performance with logging

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There has been much talking about MySQL performance related to logging. Since MySQL 5.1.21, when Bug #30414 was reported ( Slowdown (relate...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Another usability bug bites the dust

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In MySQL 5.1.33 there is a fix for an apparently innocuous bug. Bug #36540 CREATE EVENT and ALTER EVENT statements fail with large server_i...

Something to know about the event scheduler and replication

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MySQL 5.1 has been GA for 4 months now, and I am sure that many people have been using the event scheduler . There is something that you mus...
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Monday, March 23, 2009

My favorite tutorial at the UC2009 : Build and release management

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I am looking forward to the MySQL Users Conference and Expo 2009 . Since I am a tutorial speaker, my choice of tutorials to attend is limite...

Easy server testing with MySQL Sandbox

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MySQL Sandbox 2.0.18 introduces a new feature, changing port. You can now change the listening port for a sandboxed server, either as a sta...