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Sunday, November 29, 2009

Poor man's schema comparison

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Comparing database schemas is one of those DBA tasks that occur all the time. If you can afford the luxury of having a GUI, then MySQL Workb...
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Codebits 2009, coders conference and competition in Lisbon

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Codebits is approaching. Form December 3rd to 5th, this gathering of 600 developers for a conference, which is also and foremost a competit...
Thursday, November 12, 2009

Gearman for MySQL

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If you haven't yet heard about Gearman , it's time to have a look at it. Its distributed client server architecture are a perfect ma...
Thursday, October 15, 2009

Spider and vertical partition engines with new goodies

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The Spider storage engine should be already known to the community. Its version 2.5 has recently been released, with new features, the most...
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Introduction to Gearman at the Italian Research Council

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I was invited to contribute some technological views at the Italian National Research Center, during the Internet Governance Forum. My contr...
Thursday, September 24, 2009

Jeremy's article on MySQL Sandbox in Linux Magazine

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Jeremy Zawodny of Craiglist has written a kind article about MySQL Sandbox . The article, MySQL Sandbox: Treat MySQL Instances like Virtua...
Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Partitioning with non integer values using triggers

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Looking at Bug#47310 , which is a feature request that I hear frequently when I talk about partitions, I wrote a comment, suggesting trigger...
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Saturday, September 12, 2009

Snow Leopard blues

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On Friday afternoon, I went to give a presentation about MySQL advanced features at the Sardegna Ricerche technology park . The presentatio...
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Thursday, September 10, 2009

The Open Source Events Calendar

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Kudos to Lenz , who, acting on an idea launched by Ronald Bradford some time ago, has put together a comprehensive calendar of open source ...
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Sponsoring OpenSQLCamp

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The next OpenSQLCamp will be held in Portland, Oregon, USA. It is being organized by Eric Day , well known to the open source community for...
Tuesday, August 25, 2009

First Kosovo Free Software Conference

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The first Free Software Conference in Kosovo is being held on August 29-30 in Prishtina, Kosovo. The newborn state, which declared independ...
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Thursday, August 20, 2009

MySQL Sandbox and Spider at FrOSCon and OpenSQLCamp

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FrOSCon and the OpenSQLCamp are about to start. I am packing for Sankt Augustin, where I will attend the fourth edition of FrOSCon and the...
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Testing the InnoDB plugin with MySQL snapshots

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The cat is out of the bag . MySQL 5.1 will include the InnoDB plugin, and thanks to labs.mysql.com you can try the new version right away....
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Sunday, August 09, 2009

Beefing up community feeds

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If you weren't paying attention, you may have missed the latest news in Planet MySQL . A few months ago, the site has added the ability ...
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Monday, July 27, 2009

Automating MySQL Librarian tasks

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The MySQL Librarian is a collection of community generated content, easy to search and to extend. If you have missed the announcement, you ...
Wednesday, July 22, 2009

OpenSQLCamp democracy

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We have seen this before. Actually, we got the idea from Drupal, where talk proposals are public, and the most voted ones get in the schedul...
Monday, July 06, 2009

Sharding for the masses: the spider storage engine

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In my previous article about the Spider storage engine , I made some tests and I saw that the engine has potential. I did also identify some...
Sunday, June 28, 2009

Remote replication setup with Gearman and MySQL Sandbox

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A few months ago, Brian Aker invited me to have a look at Gearman , saying that I could find interesting combinations with MySQL Proxy. I d...
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Sunday, June 21, 2009

Failing by choice. Another bug-vs-feature debate ends

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A long standing bug Among the many outstanding bugs for MySQL, there is one that has sparked a fierce discussion, not only in the bug report...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Giving away one copy of MySQL Administration Bible in Madrid

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I will be in Madrid on June 18-19, to participate to the Sun Open Communities Forum . I will have two presentations on my own, and I will be...