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My ‘Hourly’ MySQL Monitor Script Version 0.05

I’ve been able to steal some more time to work on my script following My ‘hourly’ MySQL monitor script Version 0.03 almost a month ago. The purpose of this script is simple.

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Watching for Disk Based Tables being created

I didn’t know you could actually do this before addressing this problem in a benchmark using 5.0.36. MySQL allows you to update two tables with a single UPDATE statement. I knew you could reference two tables in an UPDATE statement but not update both.

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The Facebook effect

First it was the SlashDot effect, then it was the Digg effect, now it’s the Facebook effect. I have a friend at Facebook and he was talking about the effect of the Facebook Platform API that was released a few weeks ago.

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Top 5 wishes for MySQL

Note: My views are just that: mine. 1. Real time Query Monitoring MySQL 5.0 GA provides only 3 ways to look at queries that are executed on a server in some way or another.

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MySQL – Wikipedia

I was reading only last week the notes from [Wikipedia: Site Internals, Configuration and Code Examples, and Management Issues][1] Tutorial by Domas Mituzas at the recent [2007 MySQL Conference][2]. I didn’t attend this session, like a lot of sessions too much good stuff at the same time.

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MySQL – Testing failing non-transactional statements

I was asked recently to confirm a consistent state of data in a non-transactional MySQL table after a failing statement updating multiple rows did not complete successfully. Hmmm, this is what I did.

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Some comments of ‘Five months with MySQL Cluster’

I recently saw the Planet MySQL post Five months with MySQL Cluster by Brian Moon. Thought I’d add my 5 cents worth (Australian’s don’t have 1 cent coins any more to make 2 cents worth)

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Truemors, Tumors, Dribble

I was sent this email. _ http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/06/by_the_numbers_.html By the Numbers: How I built a Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Citizen – Journalism, Long-Tail, Social Media Site for $12,107.09 I have had my flatmate talk about it a lot in the past day.

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Want to hatch a great idea?

I attended The Hatchery tonight. A rather brilliant opportunity for you to pitch your present idea “The Gauntlet”, and get “The Panel” to provide expert advice your friends are not going to tell you.

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Amp’d Mobile no more

Announced at the 2007 Conference as MySQL Applications of the Year – #1 in 3G Mobile Entertainment, Amp’d Mobile is no longer the poster boy within the US telecommunications. [Amp’d Mobile Implodes: Burns $360 million, Declares Bankruptcy][1].

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Things that irk me!

As part of my job, I spend a lot of time assisting people when they are driving. But sometimes is can be trying. People that type commands, make a mistake, then backspace over typed text (like 10-20 characters), only to have to retype the text again.

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Google Street View Camera

There has been plenty of news about [Google Maps Street View][1] that I blogged about recently. I wanted to know how they do it, well here is how they do it.

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Web Site – Stumble Upon

This week eBay bought Stumble Upon . Popular names that are also eBay companies include PayPal and Skype for example. It’s rather cool, it lists hot sites that people discover. As if I didn’t have enough to look at.

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Innodb Monitoring I didn’t know

Ok, so I knew about innodb_table_monitor and innodb_tablespace_monitor. I’ve tried them before, looked at the output and given up, partly because it didn’t serve the purpose I wanted it to at the time, and also because it’s format was a little cryptic.

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