Databases
If you can’t beat them, join them!
Like fellow friends and MySQL’ers before me Morgan, Roland, Giuseppe, Markus and Sean , I’ve joined the MySQL juggernaut on the ride of my life, achieving two of my short/medium term professional goals in one step.
Read moreLogical Data Modelling (LDM)
Following my User Group Presentation I was asked by fellow MySQLer Kim about Logical Data Modelling (LDM), in relation to Physical Data Modelling. Well, first the brain had to work overtime to remember when was the last time I worked on a Logical Data Model.
Read moreThe Hobbyist and the Professional
I first coined this term in February 2006 in a paper titled “Overcoming the Challenges of Establishing Service and Support Channels” for the conference “Implementing Open Source for Optimal Business Performance” View Paper.
Read moreSlow Queries aren’t always that bad!
Well, now I have your attention, Slow Queries are bad (unless it’s a single user system and you don’t care). However there are worse things then slow queries in a large enterprise system.
Read moreStories that impress and motivate you
I’ve worked for two Internet startup companies, both around 2 years each, both now long dead. The first was due to eventual lack of new VC funds, the second gross financial managment in the second year (apparently, when we were told there was no money December one year to pay us, the company that made large profits every month for over the first year, then had made losses every month for the past 12 months, but nobody knew about it.
Read moreIt’s makes me cry
I got home today and sat down to read my home email list. Nothing new. But on a MySQL mailing list, there was an enquiry why performance was slowing in a given application.
Read moreSHOW STATUS Gotcha
Well, it’s Sunday night so I will put this down to being the weekend. The background to being caught out is a request I made to my local Users Group mailing list for some information on people’s environments because I wanted to some empirical data analysis without having any more knowledge of the systems.
Read moreThe RAT and the CAT
No, it’s not a bedtime story, is a serious system’s design concept and I’m amazing that people don’t know about this. As I mentioned in If you don’t know your data, you don’t know your application I was doing a Java Code Review, and I found a clear case of a much simplier solution.
Read moreIf you don’t know your data, you don’t know your application.
The art of data modelling is definitely lost on some [most] people, or they never found it, even though they think they did. Over dinner with good friend Morgan last night we were swapping present stories on the topic.
Read morePride
I’ve recently completed a contract and I’ve been in discussions with agents and other employers for further work. Having had one of the worse experiences in my previous work, I’ve been extra careful to ensure what I’m told at the interview/meeting stage is indeed true and accurate (in my last case it was not).
Read moreCompiling MySQL Tutorial 2 – Directly from the source
Should you want to be on the bleeding edge, or in my case, don’t want to download 70MB each day in a daily snapshot (especially when I’m getting build errors), you can use Bit Keeper Free Bit Keeper Client that at least lets you download the MySQL Repository.
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