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A beginners look at Drizzle – Getting around with SHOW
Assuming you have successfully compiled Drizzle , and you are ready to start for the first time, here are some beginner differences with those familiar with the current MySQL 5.1 GA version.
A Drizzle update – Running version 2009.03.970-development
I’ve not looked at compiling and running Drizzle on my server for the past four weeks. Well overdue time for a check and see how it’s going. I saw in today’s planet.
Extending vmplot
Taking the work already done with vmplot.sh, a useful tool for MySQL performance tuning by Yves and Matt at BigDBAHead, and in true Open Source fashion I’ve enhanced and modified for my own purposes.
Identifying resource bottlenecks – CPU
One of the first steps when addressing a MySQL performance tuning problem is to perform a system audit of the physical hardware resources, then identify any obvious bottlenecks in these resources.
Two FREE MySQL Conferences Next Month
The annual MySQL Conference & Expo will be held in this year on April 20-23 in Santa Clara, California with a double twist. Not one, but *two* FREE additional MySQL Conferences are running at the same time, in the same hotel.
Twitter Tips
I have in the past questioned the value of Twitter as an effective business tool, but it continues to defy the trend of inability to bridge the business gap with social media.
Classic quotes – Community One East
The CommunityOne East 2009 conference has finished up. There were a few classic statements made by the speakers during the day. They included. “We have a community reception, that’s a long way to say free beer.
Priceless Monty
While working with Monty Widenius on a bug I reported in MariaDB I was surprised to not get an IRC response for a few minutes. When committed Monty can identify, create a workaround, and patch a problem in code before you have time to read all the responses he also types.
Your Code, Your Community, Your Cloud… Project Kenai
Following the opening keynote announcement about Kenai I ventured into a talk on Project Kenai . With today’s economy, the drive is towards efficiency is certainly a key consideration, it was quoted that dedicated hosting servers only run at 30% efficiency.
Everybody is talking About Clouds
From the opening keynote at CommunityOne East we begin with Everybody is talking About Clouds. It’s difficult to get a good definition, the opening cloud definition today was Software/Platform/Storage/Database/Infrastructure as a service.
CommunityOne East – An open developer conference
With an opening video from thru-you.com – an individual taking random you-tube video and producing video mashup’s, the CommunityOne East conference in New York, NY beings. The opening introduction was by Chief Sustainability Officer Dave Douglas.
Hurting the little guy?
Today I come back from the dentist, if that wasn’t bad enough news, I get an email from Google AdWords titled Your Google AdWords Approval Status. In the email, all my AdWords campaigns are now disapproved, because of:
Understanding the various MySQL Products & Variants
The MySQL marketplace today is far more complex then simply choosing between a particular version of MySQL that Sun/MySQL produces. The MySQL server product in general is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) v2 , however you should carefully review the MySQL Legal Policies {#s0rl} as a number of exceptions and different license agreements operate for companion tools such as MySQL Cluster, MySQL client libraries and documentation for example.
Beginner CSV Engine issues
I’ve just started using the CSV engine for a practical application and I’ve come across a few subtle and unexpected issues/limitations. First, you can’t create any columns in your CSV table nullable.