Databases
Getting Started with Simple DB
With my continued investigation of evaluating alternative data management with cloud computing options, I’m now evaluating Amazon Simple DB . Still in restricted beta, it helps to have a friend on the inside.
Read moreDo you store credit cards in your MySQL Database?
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) has been developed to help organizations that process card payments to prevent credit card fraud, cracking and various other security vulnerabilities and threats.
Read moreDeleting from ARCHIVE tables
I can’t say I’ve used the ARCHIVE storage engine before, but at the NY MySQL Meetup last night there was discussion of the improvements to ARCHIVE in 5.1 and the fact that you could not DELETE from archive.
Read moreGiving control of your data to the cloud
I’ve been doing some research and evaluation of more cloud computing. Specifically my focus has been on data store, and considering how to augment an existing operation using a popular database such as MySQL .
Read moreHandling Disaster 101
I’ve had to accept the “practice what you preach” pill recently due to a disaster at my hosting provider. See Learning from a Disaster . While it was my own personal site on a dedicated server in question and not a business generating review I found that my MySQL Backup Strategy was incomplete ( It is also based on code 4 years old).
Read moreWorking with Google App Engine
Yesterday I took a more serious look at Google App Engine , I got a developer account some weeks ago. After going though the getting started demo some time ago, I chose an idea for a FaceBook Application and started in true eXtreme Programming (XP) style (i.
Read moreCorruption using MySQL AES_[EN|DE]NCRYPT functions
I was contacted this week by a previous client regarding a failure of processing data. This was a Contact, Financial and Media Management system I developed for a non-for-profit organization a LAMJ stack, and I’ve had to do nothing since deployment in the past 3 years, no bug fixes, no feature enhancements.
Read moreUpdated Website and Professional Blog
For those that have my existing blog bookmarked, or use any RSS/Atom feeds please update your information now. My new blog can be found at http://ronaldbradford.com/blog/ RSS 2 is http://ronaldbradford.com/blog/feed/rss2 , Atom is http://ronaldbradford.
Read moreEverything open source from Sun
In the recent interview Missed Twitter Questions from Jonathan Schwartz Interview at Web 2.0 Expo Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz is quoted as saying “Everything Sun delivers will be freely available, via a free and open license (either GPL, LGPL or Mozilla/CDDL), to the community.
Read moreMigrating my blog & updating WordPress
I’m migrating my existing WordPress run blog site at blog.arabx.com.au to a my new site ronaldbradford.com (which is not yet publically available) As part of this process I’ll be doing a number of upgrades/changes including:
Read moreLog Buffer #94: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
April 25th, 2008 – by Ronald Bradford Welcome to the 94th edition of Log Buffer , the weekly review of the database blogsphere. Adding to the list of usual database suspects, I have some more alternative considerations for our readers this week.
Read moreMaking business decisions for the community and the enterprise
I was prompted following a few key words by Marten Mickos at the Sun Dinner on Wednesday evening, and subsequent one on one discussion with Marten, to post my thoughts of some significant news this week announced at the MySQL Conference.
Read moreContinued confusion in MySQL/Sun release policy
In review of some list posts today, I came across the Falcon Preview 6.0.5 downloads available from the MySQL Forge (even that is unclear, but the directory indicates this on the forge).
Read moreMedia Blob Streaming getting a Google boost
The 2008 Google Summer of Code MySQL Projects are now available. MySQL has 14 listed projects, one of the ~190 different Open Source products listed. Unfortunately there is no summary to see the total number of projects being sponsored across all products.
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