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Monday, May 31, 2010

OpenSQLCamp EU 2010 - Call for participation

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The European OpenSQLCamp 2010 will take place in parallel to the Free and Open Source Conference 2010 (FrOSCon) on Saturday 21st and Sunda...
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Sunday, May 30, 2010

MySQL Sandbox now with plugins, more tests, instrumentation

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The latest release of MySQL Sandbox , 3.0.12, has integrated plugin installation features, as mentioned in my previous post . Not only that....
Monday, May 24, 2010

MySQL Sandbox meets plugins

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I saw it coming. In the past year I have been working more and more with plugins. The InnoDB plugins, the semi-synchronous replication plugi...
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Monday, May 17, 2010

LOAD DATA: a tricky replication issue

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When you are importing large amounts of data from other sources LOAD DATA is a common method of inserting data into a table. It is one of t...
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Friday, May 14, 2010

Sometimes, even a command line guy likes a GUI

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As everyone knows, I am a command line guy. I am very much comfortable with the shell prompt and the command line SQL client. I do most of m...
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

World map, shaped by MySQL downloads

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A few years ago, during the MySQL Conference opening keynote, two world maps of MySQL downloads were displayed. With the lights down, they m...
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Thursday, May 06, 2010

Two quick performance tips with MySQL 5.1 partitions

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While I was researching for my partitions tutorial, I came across two hidden problems, which may happen often, but are somehow difficult to ...
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Thursday, April 29, 2010

Exchanging partitions with tables

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While I was presenting my partitioning tutorial at the latest MySQL Conference, I announced a new feature that was, as far as I knew, still ...
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building MySQL 5.5 with cmake

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Yesterday I was testing a branch of MySQL 5.5 to help a colleague, and I was set aback at discovering that, with the default build options, ...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Protocol, the GPL, and how Bazaar can help

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Mark Callaghan asks Can a protocol be GPL? , after finding a disturbing comment in a source file: Any re-implementations of this protocol m...
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Linux MySQL distros meeting in Brussels

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When I saw Shlomi's post on why not to use apt-get or yum for MySQL , I thought immediately that his conclusions are quite reasonable. W...
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Friday, February 05, 2010

MySQL Developers Room at FOSDEM 2010

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I am in Brussels, waiting to attend FOSDEM 2010 , one of the biggest open source gatherings in Europe, taking place this weekend in Brussels...
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Multi dimensional cubes in MySQL through Gearman

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I gave two presentations about Gearman at the Linux.conf.au . As part of the preparation for these talks, I created several sample applicat...
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

MySQL user group meeting in Sydney, January 15th

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On January 15th I will be in Sydney, Au, on my way to Wellington, New Zealand. I will be at the MySQL User Group, hosted at the Sydney Mecha...
Monday, January 11, 2010

MySQL user group meeting in Dubai, January 13th

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On January 13th I will be in Dubai, UAE, on my way to Wellington, New Zealand. I will be at the MySQL User Group, hosted at Sun Microsystems...
Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Speaking, speaking, speaking: Dubai-Sydney-Wellington

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(*) From January 12th to 27th I will be traveling to the Southern Hemisphere and speaking at two user groups and two conferences. The schedu...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Filtering mysqldump output

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Several people have suggested a more flexible approach at mysqldump output in matter of user privileges. When you dump the data structur...
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Thursday, December 24, 2009

Holiday gift - A deep look at MySQL 5.5 partitioning enhancements

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Half a day into my vacation, I managed to finish an article on a topic that has been intriguing me for a while. Since several colleagues wer...
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Sunday, December 20, 2009

MySQL Conference 2010 - The call for participation is open

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The MySQL Conference 2010 , with Sun Microsystems as founding sponsor , has opened its Call for participation. There is already an impressi...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Getting started with MySQL 5.5

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Some time go, we announced a new release model for MySQL . As all new things, it had some initial hiccups (with MySQL 5.4 we were still gett...
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