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MySQL Camp II – It begins
Well readers, your either here or your not. MySQL Camp II starts today in Brooklyn, New York, at Polytechnic University. Last night’s pre drinks meetup in NYC went well, but today it’s brass tacks time.
MySQL Backup & Recovery – Part 1
I realized recently from observation that some smaller websites which use MySQL do not have a working backup and recovery strategy. Some may have a backup approach but it will not work in a recovery.
Today’s interesting MySQL Error Message
You have to love error messages some times. Today is was “ERROR 1289 (HY000): The ‘UNKNOWN’ feature is disabled;” For those interested. mysql> select version(); +-------------+ | version() | +-------------+ | 6.
SHOW STATUS WHERE
When you use SHOW STATUS can can restrict with the LIKE syntax, allowing for a subset of values. For example: mysql> SHOW GLOBAL STATUS LIKE 'Com%'; +--------------------------+-------+ | Variable_name | Value | +--------------------------+-------+ | Com_admin_commands | 0 | | Com_alter_db | 0 | | Com_alter_table | 0 | | Com_analyze | 0 | | Com_backup_table | 0 | | Com_begin | 0 | | Com_change_db | 0 | | Com_change_master | 0 | .
MySQL NY Meetup – Part 2 in our series
Last night at the MySQL NY Meetup we continued on from a very successful July presentation on “Practical Performance Tips & Tricks”. I must admit after speaking and standing all day for the MySQL DBA Bootcamp for the Oracle DBA it was a stretch, and we didn’t cover all material as expected, but the evening was still very productive to everybody.
Learning MySQL as an Oracle DBA
Updated I have an entire section now devoted to various MySQL for the Oracle DBA Resources . You will find additional information here. This week I presented two one day free seminars, “MySQL DBA Bootcamp for the Oracle DBA ” in New York and San Francisco.
Let’s improve MySQL security
We have all done it in the past, and probably most people that read this (will admit| or lie) to still doing it, but everybody must start making an effort to improving MySQL security in the usage on your MySQL Installation, including just on your laptop, and in presentations that people read.
My iPhone Bill
Today I got back home to my iPhone bill. Lucky for me it was only 15 pages long. Rather stupid, but this news has been circulating for a few days. You can read More Google News stories including creative titles like “How many trees did your iPhone bill kill?
5.1.20 Gotcha – The MySQL Error Log
While using the latest MySQL 5.1.20 yesterday I came across another situation that was not expected as with previous editions of MySQL. The background is experimenting with DRBD. When I configured MySQL to startup with a /etc/my.
MySQL 5.1.20 Installation
MySQL recently released 5.1.20 beta . I just ran into another gotcha, which prompted me to post this draft I’ve had for a while. rbradford@newyork:/opt/mysql51$ scripts/mysql_install_db Installing MySQL system tables... 070709 23:24:08 [Note] Plugin 'InnoDB' disabled by command line option OK Filling help tables.
OS Freedom
I’m at some internal MySQL training today at our US HQ. In a room of 11 people we are all using our laptops for access to additional machines. The beauty of this is we have Linux (Ubuntu 5.
The Hatchery July Event
Wednesday night I attended my second [Hatchery][1] event. The Hatchery is an opportunity for organizations and clever individuals seeking venture capital to make a proposal in a formal panel process with venture capitalists.
The fobar of a Web 2.0 website
Web 2.0 is all about community driven content. Recently eBay purchased Stumble Upon for $75 million . There is a problem here. When I first heard of the site, I looked at.
The iPhone Safari Browser
One of my photo websites www.ronaldbradford.com doesn’t work properly on the iPhone under Safari, but it works under Safari on Mac OS/X. Problem is, there is no debugging options and I see no way to workout why DOM compliant Javascript doesn’t work!