Contrary to my earlier April Fool’s Stuck – No country to call home I’m alive and well in Hamburg Germany with my new job.
Thanks for those concerned MySQL souls that fell pray to my “Evil Genius” as Farhan called it.
Looking forward to seeing people at the MySQL User Conference in Santa Clara in two weeks.
I previously came across an issue in my benchmarking work where I relied on the Latency Histogram section of sysbench output. On Linux it worked fine — I generally ran my workload there, so it never mattered.
Read moreIn Curated MySQL Data Sets for Realistic Testing I described datasets assembled the manual way — download, schema, load, validate, document — over hours or days per source. This post is the follow-up I promised: what changes when AI assists the same workflow, using DuckDB as the target engine and GeoNames as the first example.
Read moreLet’s say you’re building a reference table from source data, e.g. a silver medallion table from a primary source. In this example I am using a file of random locations on the globe extracted from OpenStreetMap (OSM) as my primary source.
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