Databases

Reading the right MySQL Manual

I learned an extremely valuable lesson today on a client site. It’s important that users of MySQL read the right version of the manual for the product they are using. It’s very easy to just goto http://dev.

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The MySQL Conference recap

I recently had the opportunity to return and speak at the Brisbane MySQL Users Group . I spent some time talking about MySQL User Conference 2007 Summary and Life as a Consultant.

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Reading the MySQL Manual

I was asked the question today, “How do I show the details of a Stored Procedure in MySQL. The SHOW PROCEDURE ‘name’ didn’t work.”. The obvious answer was SELECT ROUTINE_NAME,ROUTINE_DEFINITION FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.

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MySQL Cluster Certified

Jonathon Coombes recently blogged in MySQL Cluster Certified that he passed the MySQL Cluster DBA Certification as was the first Australian. Lucky for him I passed the exam after my presentation on the second day of the conference.

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MySQL Conference – YouTube

MySQL Conference 2007 Day 4 rolled quickly into the second keynote Scaling MySQL at YouTube by Paul Tuckfield. The introduction by Paul Tuckfield was; “What do I know about anything, I was just the DBA at PayPal, now I’m just the DBA at youTube.

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MySQL Conference – Get Behind Dorsal Source

In a community session yesterday at MySQL Conference 2007, I first heard about [Dorsal Source][1]. A collaboration between [Solid DB][2] and [Proven Scaling][3] that allows for community people to upload patches to [MySQL][4], get it compiled across multiple platforms, and have a downloadable distribution available on H/W individual contributors will never have access to.

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MySQL Conference – PHP on Hormones

MySQL Conference 2007 Day 4 started early again at 8:20 am with PHP on Hormones by the father of PHP Ramus Lerdorf. A very funny man, one of the best insightful talks of the conference (rather scary actually).

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MySQL Conference – Google

MySQL: The Real Grid Database Introduction Can’t work on performance problems until we solve the availability We want MySQL to fix our problems first. The problem Deploy a DBMS for a workload with too many queries to many transactions to much data A well known solution

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Quote – 26 April 2007

“The web is broken you can all go home now.” Ramus Lerdorf — Father of PHP — MySQL Conference 2007

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Quote – 25 April 2007

“Don’t complain, do something about it” Baron Schwartz – Creator of MySQL Toolkit — MySQL Conference 2007

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MySQL Roadmap

Here are some notes from the MySQL Server Roadmap session at the MySQL Conference 2007. MySQL: Past and Future 2001: 3:23 2003: 4.0 UNION query Cache Embedded 2004: 41. Subqueries 2005: 5.

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Quote – 25 April 2007

“What ever advice you got, keep it to yourself, your not the target market.” Red Hat & One Laptop Per Child UI Designer to bunch of suits – MySQL Conference 2007

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MySQL Conference – For Oracle DBAs and Developers

I have just completed my presentation at the MySQL Conference 2007 on [MySQL for Oracle DBAs and Developers][1]. Not mentioned in my slides, but referenced during the presentation was what I consider the most important page to document from the MySQL Manual — 5.

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MySQL Conference – Building a Vertical Search Engine in a Day

Moving into the user sessions on the first day at MySQL Conference 2007, I attended Building a Vertical Search Engine in a Day . Some of my notes for reference.

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