Databases
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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.
Read moreCompiling MySQL Tutorial 1 – The Baseline – Update
Just to confirm my earlier confusion about verified snapshots at Compiling MySQL Tutorial 1 – The Baseline . “Daily snapshot sources are only published, if they compiled successfully (using the BUILD/compile-pentium-debug-max script) and passed the test suite (using make test).
Read moreCompiling MySQL Tutorial 1 – The Baseline
Pre-requisites This tutorial is aimed at Linux installations that has the standard development tools already installed. The INSTALL file in the source archives provides good details of the software required (e.
Read moreMySQL Response to Bugs
I’ve read at times people complaining about the response to bugs, and people bag the support of MySQL on the forums at times. Well today I logged a bug, not the first and I’m sure it’s not the last.
Read moreUnexplained replication authentication behaviour
I’m playing with the latest 5.1.11 beta in a master/slave replication situation. Given a lack of H/W lying around I’m configuring a mixed H/W setup to leverage an existing office’s after hours CPUs running Windows XP for my slaves.
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