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Using Innodb Primary Keys wisely
At a customer site recently I came across the following table definition for an Innodb table. 140 columns, 3 part primary key totally 44 bytes, 2 million rows giving over 900MB in data size.
Read moreMySQL Camp T-Shirts
For those that attended the MySQL Camp at Google HQ late last year you may have seen me with my own T-Shirt designs. A number of people inquired about getting them.
Read moreHow’s your desktop
People that know me, know that I can’t just do one thing at once. People that have seen me work also know just how I can’t just work on a single thing, but work with multiple monitors, desktops and programs everywhere.
Read moreMySQL Predictions for 2007
I’m interested to know what people consider will behold MySQL in 2007? The announcement of “You” as Time person of the year can only considered a huge boost to the opportunities in 2007.
Read moreNY Tech Meetup – Idea Virus
On more thing that came from the NY Tech Meetup last night was the Idea Virus. It was handed out on a piece of paper. Here is what it said.
Read moreNY Tech Meetup
Tonight I headed to the NY Tech Meetup organized by the CEO of Meetup and co-founder of Fotolog, the company my friend Frank works for. This forum provided for quick presentations by new NY high tech ventures and other interesting discussions, then enabling further networking between people.
Read moreLinux One Liner – vim remove syntax highlighting
From within vi, which is normally vim these days. :syn off That’s bugged me at times and I never knew how to turn it off.
Read moreUS – That’s one infinite loop
Diary: Tuesday 28th December 2006 – Day 25 Seriously, while walking to my hotel (that’s another story in itself), I walked past the Apple Development Campus in Cupertino, and this is the road sign.
Read morePluggable Storage Engines – What is the potential?
I started this post a month ago, but after Kaj’s discussion on the same topic at the MySQL Camp I figured it was time to post. I had dinner with a friend recently (a very smart friend), and our conversation lead him to ask “What’s different with MySQL?
Read moreZune or zzz?
An interesting article in the local New Jersey paper this week. “Will Microsoft iPod-rival Zune be a ‘zoom’ or more of a ‘zzz’. This is Microsoft’s attempt to finally case in the 1.
Read moreThe desire for Performance SQL Tips
It seems, people are clammering for a more consolidated help guide for SQL Performance tips. Jay Pipes at the MySQL Camp ran a session Interactive Top 10 SQL performance Tips .
Read moreThe MySQL Joust
At our MySQL Camp Jay and Brian pitted off in the Umbrella Joust. Not sure if there was a winner, or a looser, but in the end no blood was split (except Leslie, but that’s another story).
Read moreThe Falcon!
Some early notes by Brian Aker on Falcon as discussed at the MySQL Camp . Falcon is a transactional engine MySQL will be introducing. The first discussions were held about 3 years ago with Ann Harrison and about 1 1/2 years ago, MySQL started taking seriously the possibilities.
Read moreGooglewear
I was able to acquire my first piece of Google wear at the recent MySQL Camp Conference. You see a look of cool Google things and little did I know you can buy a lot of it at The Google Store .
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