https://ronaldbradford.com/categories/general/ Recent content in General on Enterprise Data Architect | Principal Data Strategist | MySQL Subject Matter Expert | Author | Speaker Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:03:32 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/imagemagick-on-mac-os-x-2010-06-01/ Tue, 01 Jun 2010 14:03:32 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/imagemagick-on-mac-os-x-2010-06-01/ Wanting to do some image manipulation I realized my Linux scripts don’t run under Mac OS X, as ImageMagick is not installed via my MacPorts . However installation failed: $ sudo port install imagemagick ---> Computing dependencies for ImageMagick ---> Verifying checksum(s) for xorg-libX11 Error: Checksum (md5) mismatch for libX11-1. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/my-favorite-data-type-decimal310-2009-09-18/ Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:53:56 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/my-favorite-data-type-decimal310-2009-09-18/ It may seem hard to believe, but I have seen DECIMAL(31,0) in action on a production server. Not just in one column, but in 15 columns just in the largest 4 tables of one schema. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/more-woes-with-java-version-on-ubuntu-2009-09-18/ Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:39:06 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/more-woes-with-java-version-on-ubuntu-2009-09-18/ Armed with more information on Drizzle JDBC being a JDBC 4.0 implementation (helps to explain my issues in Getting started with Drizzle JDBC ) I took the time to read about some other new JDBC 4. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/explain-this-2009-09-14/ Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:12:45 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/explain-this-2009-09-14/ The EXPLAIN command is an important tool to review how a SQL query is executed and in this example includes what indexes are used. By adding a covering index I ended up with the following EXPLAIN plan I was unable to explain. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-replication-102-2009-09-14/ Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:40:09 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-replication-102-2009-09-14/ One of the most asked questions is how to setup MySQL replication. The MySQL Reference Manual provides a good Replication How To as a starting guide on MySQL Replication 101. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/has-your-blog-been-hacked-2009-09-08/ Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:32:10 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/has-your-blog-been-hacked-2009-09-08/ While not a MySQL topic, as most of my readers view my MySQL Blog, my WordPress blog has been hacked? Has yours? Like many, I’m sure you may have read about it like at WordPress blogs under attack from hack attack but I was surprised when my custom permlinks did not work. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/sql-analysis-with-mysql-proxy-part-2-2009-09-03/ Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:31:19 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/sql-analysis-with-mysql-proxy-part-2-2009-09-03/ As I outlined in Part 1 MySQL Proxy can be one tool for performing SQL analysis. The impact with any monitoring is the art of monitoring will affect the results, in this case the performance. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/seeking-public-data-for-benchmarks-2009-08-28/ Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:05:29 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/seeking-public-data-for-benchmarks-2009-08-28/ I have several side projects when time permits and one is that of benchmarking various MySQL technologies (e.g. MySQL 5.0,5.1,5.4), variants (e.g. MariaDB, Drizzle) and storage engines (e.g. Tokutek, Innodb plugin) and even other products like Tokyo Cabinet which is gaining large implementations. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/getting-started-with-gearman-2009-07-26/ Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:42:15 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/getting-started-with-gearman-2009-07-26/ Gearman is an open source generic framework for distributed processing. At OSCON 2009 I attended the Gearman: Build Your Own Distributed Platform in 3 Hours tutorial. While it’s very easy to install Gearman, and follow the first example, if you missed the all important additional PHP steps listed on just one slide you may be left with the “‘Class ‘GearmanClient’ not found” error. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/setting-up-sysbench-with-mysql-drizzle-2009-07-23/ Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:47:16 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/setting-up-sysbench-with-mysql-drizzle-2009-07-23/ Sysbench is a open source product that enables you to perform various system benchmarks including databases. Drizzles performs regression testing of every trunk revision with a branched version of sysbench within Drizzle Automation . https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/configure-error-mysql_config-executable-not-found-2009-07-23/ Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:56:15 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/configure-error-mysql_config-executable-not-found-2009-07-23/ If your compiling a product that includes a dependency of MySQL, you can easily get the error configure: error: mysql_config executable not found I generally don’t see this problem, because I use MySQL binary tar files, however if you use MySQL packages, such as Ubuntu, you can easily miss the required dependency. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/understanding-different-mysql-index-implementations-2009-07-22/ Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:37:20 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/understanding-different-mysql-index-implementations-2009-07-22/ It is important to know and understand that while indexing columns in MySQL will generally improve performance, using the appropriate type of index can make a greater impact on performance. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysqlcom-and-related-sites-are-down-2009-07-22/ Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:26:15 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysqlcom-and-related-sites-are-down-2009-07-22/ I tried to go to mysql.com and Planet MySQL over my lunch break at OSCON 2009 to find the websites are down. Seems from conversions with fellow Drizzle colleagues this has been down for some time. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/drizzle-query-logging-2009-07-21/ Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:49:48 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/drizzle-query-logging-2009-07-21/ Currently Drizzle offers three (3) separate query logging plugins. These plugins offer an extensible means of gathering all or selected queries and provide the foundation for a query analyser tool. Additional filtering includes selecting queries by execution time, result size, rows processed and by any given regular expression via PCRE. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/whats-new-in-mysql-541-2009-07-16/ Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:56:19 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/whats-new-in-mysql-541-2009-07-16/ Absolutely nothing? 5.4.0 was released with a change in the MySQL Binary distributions , delivering only 1 64bit Linux platform and two Sun Solaris platforms. This was officially announced on April 21 2009 however the 5. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-to-do-at-325am-2009-07-16/ Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:33:37 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-to-do-at-325am-2009-07-16/ Look at MySQL bug reports of course? Well actually I’m writing multiple blog posts, and I was confirming additional reference sources and links when I came across MySQL Bug #29847 – Large CPU usage of InnoDB crash recovery with a big buf pool. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/never-let-your-binlog-directory-fill-up-2009-07-15/ Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:51:08 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/never-let-your-binlog-directory-fill-up-2009-07-15/ Recently with a client while running a number of disaster recovery tests I came across a nasty situation which was not part of the original plan and provided a far worse disaster situation then expected. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/understanding-more-innodb-mvcc-2009-07-15/ Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:09:02 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/understanding-more-innodb-mvcc-2009-07-15/ As I had written earlier in Understanding InnoDB MVCC , I am trying to understand why InnoDB is taking a lock on data during an UPDATE when I do not expect this to happen. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/an-important-drizzlemysql-difference-2009-07-04/ Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:01:11 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/an-important-drizzlemysql-difference-2009-07-04/ There are many features that are similar in MySQL and Drizzle. There are also many that are not. I’ve previously discussed topics like Datatypes and tables , SQL_MODE and SHOW . https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-confusion-over-global-and-session-status-2009-07-03/ Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:47:20 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-confusion-over-global-and-session-status-2009-07-03/ I was trying to demonstrate to a client how to monitor queries that generate internal temporary tables. With an EXPLAIN plan you see ‘Creating temporary’. Within MySQL you can use the SHOW STATUS to look at queries that create temporary tables. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/benchmarking-drizzle-with-mybenchdbddrizzle-2009-07-01/ Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:13:37 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/benchmarking-drizzle-with-mybenchdbddrizzle-2009-07-01/ With thanks to Patrick Galbraith and his DBD::drizzle 0.200 I am now able to test client benchmarks side by side with MySQL and Drizzle. For simple benchmarking with clients, generally when I have little time, I use a simple Perl framework mybench . https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mifi-installation-woes-2009-06-27/ Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:26:42 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mifi-installation-woes-2009-06-27/ As I mentioned in MiFi Introduction I took the plunge and purchased a Verizon MiFi . I got this under a 2 year contract for $149.99 and $59.99 per month for 5GB of traffic. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mifi-introduction-2009-06-27/ Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:34:25 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mifi-introduction-2009-06-27/ My first news of the Verizon MiFi was via Twitter when @DonMacAskill said “Think my iPhone 3G via MiFi is faster than AT&T 3G. Should I carry both all the time now? https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/using-statpack-with-show-status-2009-06-18/ Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:40:23 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/using-statpack-with-show-status-2009-06-18/ Mark Leith, on of the MySQL Support Team managers wrote some time ago a very nice utility I use often called Statpack . My use of Statpack is very simple. Take two snaphots of SHOW GLOBAL STATUS and compare to produce a text based version of the statistics. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-value-of-multi-insert-values-2009-06-16/ Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:10:51 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-value-of-multi-insert-values-2009-06-16/ Baron got a great amount of response from his 50 things to know before migrating Oracle to MySQL . I’m glad I invited him as a fellow MySQL colleague to my presentation to the Federal Government on Best Practices for Migrating to MySQL from Oracle and SQL Server for his inspiration. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-is-max_tmp_tables-2009-06-16/ Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:23:45 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-is-max_tmp_tables-2009-06-16/ Recently I came across another configuration option I’d not heard of before. I profess to not know them all, however I do know when I find something unusual. If you are a beginner DBA, learn what is normal and expected, and identify what is out of the normal, investigate, research and question if necessary. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/oreilly-twitter-boot-camp-a-success-2009-06-16/ Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:23:03 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/oreilly-twitter-boot-camp-a-success-2009-06-16/ The first O’Reilly Twitter Boot Camp – #OTBC was held in New York as a pre cursor to 140 Characters Conference – #140conf on Monday 15th June, 2009. With opening and closing keynotes were like matching bookends of The Twitter Book #twitterbook offered to all attendees and authored by the keynoters @timoreilly and @SarahM . https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/wafflecloud-with-cream-2009-06-14/ Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:29:17 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/wafflecloud-with-cream-2009-06-14/ I have been working recently with Matt Yonkovit to get Waffle Grid cloud enabled with Amazon Web Services (AWS) . An initial version of Waffle Grid Cream – Version 0.5 release is now available. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/multi-threaded-memcached-2009-06-11/ Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:07:01 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/multi-threaded-memcached-2009-06-11/ I discovered while compiling Wafflegrid today that by default, the Ubuntu binaries for memcached are not-multithreaded. Following the installation of memcached from apt-get and libmemcached I ran memslap for: $ memslap -s localhost Threads connecting to servers 1 Took 1. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/problems-compiling-mysql-54-2009-06-11/ Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:54:04 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/problems-compiling-mysql-54-2009-06-11/ Seem’s the year Sun had for improving MySQL , and with an entire new 5.4 branch the development team could not fix the autoconf and compile dependencies that has been in MySQL for all the years I’ve been compiling MySQL. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/understanding-your-raid-configuration-2009-06-08/ Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:26:14 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/understanding-your-raid-configuration-2009-06-08/ For any production MySQL Database system, running RAID is a given these days. Do you know what RAID your database is? Are you sure? . Ask for quantifiable reproducible output from your systems provider or your System Administrator. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/oscon-2009-at-a-discounted-rate-2009-06-05/ Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:31:03 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/oscon-2009-at-a-discounted-rate-2009-06-05/ OSCON moves this year from Portland to San Jose. As one the community panel for Drizzle: Status, Principles, and Ecosystem I also have a speaker discount which you can combine with O’Reilly having also extended early bird registration until June 23. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-book-winner-for-5-configuration-options-2009-06-04/ Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:06:43 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-book-winner-for-5-configuration-options-2009-06-04/ If you had to configure a WordPress MU installation without access to any details of your MySQL Configuration, what would you do? What top five configuration settings would you use? https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/misunderstanding-raid-configuration-2009-06-02/ Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:22:04 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/misunderstanding-raid-configuration-2009-06-02/ Update 8 June 2009 Be sure you to check out some of my research including Understanding your RAID Configuration and Understanding PERC RAID Controllers . Last week I got caught thinking a MySQL production system wasn’t configured with RAID when it actually was. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/leveraging-the-power-of-twitter-2009-06-02/ Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:27:10 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/leveraging-the-power-of-twitter-2009-06-02/ Last week I posted the following twitter request — “Can somebody loan me (or buy me) a Dell 2950 decked out so I can run and publish some benchmarks. Please!” https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/free-mysql-book-giveway-current-progress-2009-05-31/ Sun, 31 May 2009 21:18:21 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/free-mysql-book-giveway-current-progress-2009-05-31/ I’ve decided to give people two more days for a chance to win a free MySQL Book — Sheeri Cabral’s MySQL Administrators Bible . I have had five people so far provide recommendations for a simple MySQL configuration question as stated in <a href=http://ronaldbradford. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/more-basic-mysql-security-2009-05-29/ Fri, 29 May 2009 19:29:28 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/more-basic-mysql-security-2009-05-29/ The reason for yesterday’s Basic OS/MySQL Security was a request to review a system and I was given the production server ‘root’ password in an email. Never email a ‘root’ password, especially including the hostname as well. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/for-mysql-dba-fame-and-glory-prize-included-2009-05-29/ Fri, 29 May 2009 18:14:38 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/for-mysql-dba-fame-and-glory-prize-included-2009-05-29/ I came across the following configuration today on a Production MySQL system (5.0.67) running 30+ blogs using WordPress MU . $ cat /etc/my.cnf [mysqld] set-variable = max_connections=500 safe-show-database No I did not truncate the output. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/basic-os-mysql-security-2009-05-28/ Thu, 28 May 2009 20:42:16 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/basic-os-mysql-security-2009-05-28/ If you can do either of these on your MySQL production server, you need to correct immediately. 1. Login directly to your MySQL server as the ‘root’ Linux Operating System user. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/transcending-technology-specific-boundaries-2009-05-26/ Tue, 26 May 2009 17:33:20 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/transcending-technology-specific-boundaries-2009-05-26/ I had the pleasure to sit on the Performance Panel at the recent Percona Performance Conference . While the panel contained a number of usual MySQL suspects, one person was not familiar, that being Cary Millsap from Method R . https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/show-warnings-woes-2009-05-19/ Tue, 19 May 2009 13:27:23 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/show-warnings-woes-2009-05-19/ Recently on a client site I had to fight the pain of having no way to confirm loss of data integrity when optimizing data types. Due to MySQL’s ability to perform silent conversion of data, when converting a number of columns we enabled sql_mode to catch any truncations as errors. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-mysql-crystal-ball-says-2009-05-18/ Mon, 18 May 2009 13:56:09 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-mysql-crystal-ball-says-2009-05-18/ As the recipient of the 2009 MySQL Community Member of the Year award I received a MySQL crystal ball. While it looks good in my bookcase, unfortunately the best advice I can offer during this time of uncertainty is “watch this space”. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-for-the-oracle-dba-resources-2009-05-18/ Mon, 18 May 2009 12:40:49 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-for-the-oracle-dba-resources-2009-05-18/ The announcement last month of Oracle to acquire Sun continues to warrant a lot of discussion over exactly what Oracle will do with MySQL. Only time will tell what will happen with the official product, however it is important to remember that MySQL is GPL, there will always be a free version of MySQL available for popular LAMP stack products such as WordPress and Drupal and new and existing startup’s will continue to use MySQL. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/hitcho-top-tech-tips-2009-05-13/ Wed, 13 May 2009 11:52:06 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/hitcho-top-tech-tips-2009-05-13/ I recent visit with old Brisbane friend HiTCHO which I met at the Brisbane MySQL Users Group in 2005, has lead to this cool list of some hardware and software technologies he used that I am now considering or have already implemented or purchased. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/one-advantage-of-oraclesunmysql-2009-04-27/ Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:17:58 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/one-advantage-of-oraclesunmysql-2009-04-27/ This weeks’ announcement Oracle to by Sun was a major talking point at the 2009 MySQL Conference & Expo . While it is too early to even speculate what the future holds with the official MySQL product, for myself a speaker on MySQL topics, Oracle Open World is now a target market. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/announcing-drizzle-on-ec2-2009-04-26/ Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:45:28 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/announcing-drizzle-on-ec2-2009-04-26/ I have published the very first sharable Drizzle Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for AWS EC2, based on the good feedback from my discussion at the Drizzle Developer Day on what options we should try. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/compiling-libdrizzle-2009-04-26/ Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:00:48 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/compiling-libdrizzle-2009-04-26/ Compiling libdrizzle is a rather trivial task. The following are the steps I undertook on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid 32 bit. There was one pre-requisite from the most basic installed developer tools. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/drizzlebzr-dependency-2009-04-26/ Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:18:27 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/drizzlebzr-dependency-2009-04-26/ A number of developers had problems on Friday at the Drizzle Developer Day with compiling bzr . The distro in question I was helping with was CentOS 5 32-bit. I had no issues on CentOS 5 64bit. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/adding-a-drizzle-plugin-2009-04-24/ Sat, 25 Apr 2009 03:45:07 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/adding-a-drizzle-plugin-2009-04-24/ I joined about 50 others including a number of core MySQL developers and MySQL community members today for the 2009 Drizzle developers day at Sun Microsystems Santa Clara campus. In addition to a number of presentations and various group discussions most of my individual hacking time was under the guidance of Drizzle team developer Stewart Smith were Patrick Galbraith and myself started the porting of Patrick’s memcached UDF functions for MySQL . https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/percona-performance-conference-talk-2009-04-23/ Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:50:28 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/percona-performance-conference-talk-2009-04-23/ My final presentation during the 2009 MySQL Conference and Expo week was with the Percona Performance Conference on the topic of The Ideal Performance Architecture. My talk included discussions on Technology, Disk, Memory, Indexes, SQL and Data. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-monitoring-101-2009-04-22/ Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:18:57 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-monitoring-101-2009-04-22/ At the 2009 MySQL Conference and Expo I presented to a full room on MySQL Monitoring 101 . This presentation focused on the following four goals. Know what to monitor Know how you can monitor Learn practices to diagnose problems Have a foundation of historical information MySQL Monitoring 101 View more presentations from Ronald Bradford. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-change-in-the-mysql-binary-distributions-2009-04-22/ Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:52:15 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-change-in-the-mysql-binary-distributions-2009-04-22/ Yesterday was the surprise announcement of MySQL 5.4 at the 2009 MySQL Conference and Expo. It was unfortunate that the supporting information was not that forthcoming on the MySQL website. I tried for several hours to try and download, but no mirrors were initially available. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/setting-up-mysql-on-amazon-web-services-aws-presentation-2009-04-22/ Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:28:25 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/setting-up-mysql-on-amazon-web-services-aws-presentation-2009-04-22/ On Tuesday at the MySQL Camp 2009 in Santa Clara I presented Setting up MySQL on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This presentation assumed you know nothing about AWS, and have no account. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/whats-happening-with-innodb-2009-04-21/ Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:31:42 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/whats-happening-with-innodb-2009-04-21/ I have moved on to InnoDB: Innovative Technologies for Performance and Data Protection by Ken Jacobs at MySQL Conference and Expo . With a brief history lesson of inception from 1994, inclusion in MySQL in 2000 and acquired by Oracle in 2005. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/search-at-craigslist-2009-04-21/ Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:39:04 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/search-at-craigslist-2009-04-21/ I am now sitting in on MySQL and Search at Craigslist by Jeremy Zawodny at MySQL Users Conference Some of the technical difficulties that required addressing. High churn rate half life can be very short Growth Traffic Need to archive postings, e. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-users-conference-opening-lines-2009-04-21/ Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:23:35 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-users-conference-opening-lines-2009-04-21/ Opening introduction from Colin Charles got us started. Karen Tegan Padir VP MySQL & Software Infrastructure was the opening keynote. She comes from a strong tech background and is passionate about open source, the communities and how to make a successful product. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/where-is-the-mysql-in-suns-announcement-2009-04-20/ Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:49:22 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/where-is-the-mysql-in-suns-announcement-2009-04-20/ I find it surprising that in the official Sun Announcement there is no mention of MySQL for two reasons. Firstly, this was Sun largest single purchase of $1 billion only 12 months ago. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/drizzle-php-sweet-2009-04-19/ Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:37:33 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/drizzle-php-sweet-2009-04-19/ I’ve just successfully configured Drizzle with the PHP Extension and successfully retrieve data to present on a web page. Qudos to Eric Day for his work. I was able to identify a problem with the current tar release, and a quick confirmation on #drizzle at IRC confirmed a fix had already been commited. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-questions-do-you-ask-2009-04-07/ Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:35:44 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-questions-do-you-ask-2009-04-07/ When you have to evaluate a MySQL System & Environment, what questions do you ask in order to determine critical information about the environment and evaluate the business success and viability. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysqlcom-search-is-so-broken-2009-04-06/ Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:58:35 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysqlcom-search-is-so-broken-2009-04-06/ Today, while on the MySQL manual page , I typed in ‘select’ in the search manual box to confirm the SELECT syntax. The result was not what I expected, the “SELECT” command. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-beginners-look-at-drizzle-sql_mode-2009-04-06/ Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:16:30 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-beginners-look-at-drizzle-sql_mode-2009-04-06/ A new feature to MySQL Version 5 was the introduction of SQL_MODE to support STRICT… or TRADITIONAL values. This feature enabled a closer compatibility to other RDBMS products. MySQL by default performs a number of silent data changes which do not help in providing a level of data integrity if you come from a more traditional background. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/identifying-resource-bottlenecks-memory-2009-04-02/ Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:23:41 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/identifying-resource-bottlenecks-memory-2009-04-02/ Continuing on from CPU , we turn our attention to Memory. One of the first steps when addressing a MySQL performance tuning problem is to perform a system audit of the physical hardware resources, then identify any obvious bottlenecks in these resources. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/identifying-resource-bottlenecks-cpu-2009-03-31/ Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:22:42 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/identifying-resource-bottlenecks-cpu-2009-03-31/ One of the first steps when addressing a MySQL performance tuning problem is to perform a system audit of the physical hardware resources, then identify any obvious bottlenecks in these resources. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/two-free-mysql-conferences-next-month-2009-03-30/ Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:56:05 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/two-free-mysql-conferences-next-month-2009-03-30/ The annual MySQL Conference & Expo will be held in this year on April 20-23 in Santa Clara, California with a double twist. Not one, but *two* FREE additional MySQL Conferences are running at the same time, in the same hotel. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/twitter-tips-2009-03-27/ Sat, 28 Mar 2009 01:57:46 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/twitter-tips-2009-03-27/ I have in the past questioned the value of Twitter as an effective business tool, but it continues to defy the trend of inability to bridge the business gap with social media. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/priceless-monty-2009-03-20/ Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:09:06 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/priceless-monty-2009-03-20/ While working with Monty Widenius on a bug I reported in MariaDB I was surprised to not get an IRC response for a few minutes. When committed Monty can identify, create a workaround, and patch a problem in code before you have time to read all the responses he also types. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/hurting-the-little-guy-2009-03-16/ Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:08:02 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/hurting-the-little-guy-2009-03-16/ Today I come back from the dentist, if that wasn’t bad enough news, I get an email from Google AdWords titled Your Google AdWords Approval Status. In the email, all my AdWords campaigns are now disapproved, because of: https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/understanding-the-various-mysql-products-variants-2009-03-13/ Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:29:16 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/understanding-the-various-mysql-products-variants-2009-03-13/ The MySQL marketplace today is far more complex then simply choosing between a particular version of MySQL that Sun/MySQL produces. The MySQL server product in general is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) v2 , however you should carefully review the MySQL Legal Policies {#s0rl} as a number of exceptions and different license agreements operate for companion tools such as MySQL Cluster, MySQL client libraries and documentation for example. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/beginner-csv-engine-issues-2009-03-12/ Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:58:03 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/beginner-csv-engine-issues-2009-03-12/ I’ve just started using the CSV engine for a practical application and I’ve come across a few subtle and unexpected issues/limitations. First, you can’t create any columns in your CSV table nullable. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/infobright-community-editionice-its-free-2009-03-12/ Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:22:24 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/infobright-community-editionice-its-free-2009-03-12/ The March NY MySQL Meetup featured a presentation from Infobright , a data warehousing solution built on the MySQL Product. With a pitch of “Simplicity, Scalability and low TCO” I became more impressed with the capability to delivery on these as the presentation proceeded. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/are-you-monitoring-rss-vsz-2009-03-08/ Mon, 09 Mar 2009 01:27:21 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/are-you-monitoring-rss-vsz-2009-03-08/ Monitoring MySQL Memory is a rather critical task because you can’t limit MySQL’s usage of physical memory resources. Improperly configured servers running MySQL can crash because you don’t understand memory usage. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/testing-your-system-2009-03-06/ Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:14:20 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/testing-your-system-2009-03-06/ I have raised this specific topic 3 times this week alone, twice in a MySQL setting. The fundamental philosophy of testing is NOT to verify features of your product that work, it is to BREAK your system. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/configuration-mangement-concepts-for-database-objects-2009-03-04/ Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:16:34 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/configuration-mangement-concepts-for-database-objects-2009-03-04/ Correctly managing your MySQL database objects such as schemas, tables, indexes, base data etc, is critical to the success of a 24×7 online website. I rarely encounter a robust working solution as part of my consulting so I would like to share my experience in identifying the best practices you should be adopting whether your an existing organization or just an individual with a simple website. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/planet-mysql-at-a-new-url-2009-02-26/ Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:42:05 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/planet-mysql-at-a-new-url-2009-02-26/ Did anybody notice that http://planetmysql.org now redirects to http://planet.mysql.com ? Curious to know the reason why, perhaps an official MySQL person can give us some details. Also it’s a 302 redirect, not a 301 redirect, interesting? https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/eliminating-unnecessary-internal-temporary-tables-2009-02-25/ Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:48:49 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/eliminating-unnecessary-internal-temporary-tables-2009-02-25/ I can’t stress enough that people look at SQL statements that are being executed against your production MySQL database, and you optimize queries when you can. Often it’s the improvement to the large number of similar queries executed that can optimize resources. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/announcing-mysql-essentials-training-2009-02-24/ Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:05:54 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/announcing-mysql-essentials-training-2009-02-24/ Are you having problems getting up to speed on MySQL? Are you asking yourself “Is there a hands-on training course we can send a developer/system admin to learn MySQL?”. In response, at 42SQL we have put together two new training courses, MySQL Essentials and MySQL Operations. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-art-of-looking-at-the-actual-sql-statements-2009-02-24/ Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:36:12 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-art-of-looking-at-the-actual-sql-statements-2009-02-24/ It’s a shame that MySQL does not provide better granularity when you want to look at all SQL statements being executed in a MySQL server. I canvas that you can with the general log, but the inherit starting/stopping problems in 5. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/watching-a-slave-catchup-2009-02-24/ Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:48:41 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/watching-a-slave-catchup-2009-02-24/ This neat one line command can be of interest when you are rebuilding a MySQL slave and replication is currently catching up. $ watch --interval=1 --differences 'mysql -uuser -ppassword -e " https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/some-drupal-observations-2009-02-23/ Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:36:26 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/some-drupal-observations-2009-02-23/ I had the opportunity to review a client’s production Drupal installation recently. This is a new site and traffic is just starting to pick up. Drupal is a popular LAMP stack open source CMS system using the MySQL Database. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/best-practices-in-migrating-to-mysql-2009-02-22/ Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:10:16 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/best-practices-in-migrating-to-mysql-2009-02-22/ This week I was the invited speaker to give a 4 hr presentation to the Federal Government Sector in Washington DC on “Best Practices in Migrating to MySQL“. This was a followup to my day long “MySQL for the Oracle DBA Bootcamp” which I presented in Washington DC last year. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/strict-mode-can-still-throw-warnings-2009-02-11/ Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:54:41 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/strict-mode-can-still-throw-warnings-2009-02-11/ MySQL by default is vary lax with data validation. Silent conversions is a concept that is not a common practice in other databases. In MySQL, instead of throwing an error, a warning was thrown and many applications simply did not handle warnings. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/reducing-the-mysql-5130-disk-footprint-2009-02-11/ Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:58:34 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/reducing-the-mysql-5130-disk-footprint-2009-02-11/ The current size of a MySQL 5.1.30 installation is around 420M. $ du -sh . 426M . A further breakdown. $ du -sh * 213M bin 20K COPYING 9.8M docs 8. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/javascript-helpers-2008-10-13/ Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:36:52 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/javascript-helpers-2008-10-13/ Combined with my old favorites of Dynamic Drive , DHTML Goodies and Brain Jar , I’ve added the following to my list of Javascript sources. Mochikit JQuery https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/technology-changes-humans-dont-web-20-ny-second-keynote-2008-09-17/ Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:30:26 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/technology-changes-humans-dont-web-20-ny-second-keynote-2008-09-17/ I needed a rest from my opening keynote review NY Tech 1995-2008. Opening Web 2.0 Expo NY Keynote but a few siginificant points from The Death of the Grand Gesture by Deb Schultz. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-51-qep-nicety-using-join-buffer-2008-08-27/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:56:23 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-51-qep-nicety-using-join-buffer-2008-08-27/ I was surprised to find yesterday when using MySQL 5.1.26-rc with a client I’m recommending 5.1 to, some information not seen in the EXPLAIN plan before while reviewing SQL Statements. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/virtualbox-compiling-part-2-2008-08-18/ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:06:36 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/virtualbox-compiling-part-2-2008-08-18/ So I managed to find all dependencies after some trial and error for compiling VirtualBox 1.6.4 under Ubuntu 8.0.4, then finding the Linux build instructions to confirm. It was not successful however in building, throwing the following error: https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/virtual-box-a-world-of-hurt-2008-08-17/ Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:34:56 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/virtual-box-a-world-of-hurt-2008-08-17/ I successfully installed Virtual box via a few simply apt-get commands under Ubuntu 8.04 via these instructions . It started fine, after two small annoying, install this module, add this group messages. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/drizzle-has-its-own-dedicated-feeds-2008-08-17/ Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:38:14 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/drizzle-has-its-own-dedicated-feeds-2008-08-17/ For those that have been using Planet MySQL to follow the progress of Drizzle , we now have our own Planet Drizzle . You can also get a RSS feed directly from http://feeds. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/choosing-mysql-51-over-50-2008-08-15/ Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:41:45 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/choosing-mysql-51-over-50-2008-08-15/ I have been asked twice this week what version of MySQL I would choose for a new project. As with most questions in life the answer is: It Depends? In general I would now recommend for a new project to select 5. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/project-darkstar-2008-08-14/ Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:05:28 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/project-darkstar-2008-08-14/ It may sound like either a astronomical research project or a Star Wars spin- off, but Project Darkstar is an open source infrastructure from Sun Microsystems that states “simplify the development and operation of massively scalable online games, virtual worlds, and social networking applications. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-are-the-best-mysql-design-practices-2008-08-12/ Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:51:06 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-are-the-best-mysql-design-practices-2008-08-12/ Tonight I provided a scope in Best Design Practices for MySQL Applications – Part A of just how much there is to consider with a successful application. I only scratched the surface in some detail, a topic one could easily write a book on, and definitely provide a number more presentations. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/finding-exposing-and-referencing-good-material-2008-08-10/ Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:16:53 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/finding-exposing-and-referencing-good-material-2008-08-10/ I came across www.problogger.net by accident. Like many sites and information these days, you simply don’t find via search engines because your normally searching for something specific. I did find it via several levels of hyperlinks. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/ultra-light-startups-ny-meeting-2008-08-10/ Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:01:52 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/ultra-light-startups-ny-meeting-2008-08-10/ I attended the Ultra light startup’s meeting last night for the first time. I found it most productive for the 2 hours of time to see a different approach talking about startups, to see a variety of approaches, concepts, ideas, ventures all at various stages and generally people with different and interesting ideas and goal. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/using-consistent-data-types-for-columns-2008-08-04/ Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:54:49 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/using-consistent-data-types-for-columns-2008-08-04/ I came across this error recently when trying to modify the data type of a column. ERROR 1025 (HY000): Error on rename of './sakila/#sql-1d91_5' to './sakila/inventory' (errno: 150) Not the first time, and not the last time. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-involvement-in-oscon-opening-keynote-2008-08-01/ Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:50:11 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-involvement-in-oscon-opening-keynote-2008-08-01/ Before I get to post my OSCON reflection I see I didn’t post this (which I reference). At OSCON opening keynotes Tim O’Reilly Interviews Monty Widenius & Brian Aker . This provided some interesting answers in a Q & A session. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/where-the-happening-community-people-now-hang-2008-07-31/ Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:18:28 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/where-the-happening-community-people-now-hang-2008-07-31/ Eric of Proven Scaling commented on a lack of IRC action in the normal mysql channels today when he visited the #drizzle channel on irc.freenode.net. ebergen: I'm still in #mysql-dev and #planet. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/installing-buildbot-2008-07-28/ Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:28:23 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/installing-buildbot-2008-07-28/ BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test cycle required by most software projects to validate code changes. Here is my environment. $ uname -a Linux app.example.com 2.6.18-53.el5 #1 SMP Mon Nov 12 02:14:55 EST 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ python Python 2. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-proxy-lua-scripts-from-presentation-2008-07-28/ Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:30:07 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-proxy-lua-scripts-from-presentation-2008-07-28/ The following Lua scripts are the examples are from my MySQL Proxy @ OSCON 08 presentation. analyze_query.lua MySQL Proxy Analyze Query . Requires MySQL Proxy Logging Module . What is released is the Version for MySQL 5. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-proxy-oscon-08-2008-07-25/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:16:16 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-proxy-oscon-08-2008-07-25/ Today I presented with Giuseppe Maxia of Sun Microsystems Inc at OSCON 08 on “MySQL Proxy: From Architecture to Implementation”. I was surprised to find that MySQL has a strong showing with a number of presentations this week. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-lighter-side-at-oreilly-oscon-08-2008-07-25/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:16:08 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-lighter-side-at-oreilly-oscon-08-2008-07-25/ Between the keynotes , general sessions , BoFs that are plenty of events at <a href=““http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/">OSCON 08. Last night in the BoF time, a selected few enjoyed the relaxed music mode of the Good Company Soul and Blues Review . https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-fast-paced-open-source-ecosystem-2008-07-24/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:22:43 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-fast-paced-open-source-ecosystem-2008-07-24/ This morning at <a href=““http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/">OSCON 08, Tim O’Reilly’s opening keynote Open Source on the O’Reilly Radar included a slide on Drizzle, giving this new project maximum exposure to the Open Source community. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-new-kid-on-the-block-drizzle-2008-07-23/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:01:01 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-new-kid-on-the-block-drizzle-2008-07-23/ Before today, Drizzle was known as a light form of rain found in Seattle (among other places). Not any more. If you have not read the news already today, Drizzle, Clouds, “What If? https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/an-east-coast-option-ad-2008-07-22/ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:51:58 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/an-east-coast-option-ad-2008-07-22/ Within the present MySQL ecosystem, there are limited options for dedicated MySQL Consulting in the US. Outside of the official Sun/MySQL Consulting , Percona and Proven Scaling both based in Silicon valley are the only options generally known and accepted by the MySQL Community. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/your-data-and-the-cloud-2008-07-19/ Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:04:45 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/your-data-and-the-cloud-2008-07-19/ I will be speaking on July 29th in New York at an Entrepreneurs Forum on A Free Panel on Cloud Computing . With a number of experts including Hank Williams of KloudShare, Mike Nolet of AppNexus, and Hans Zaunere of New York PHP fame is should be a great event. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/when-n-counts-2008-07-19/ Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:05:56 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/when-n-counts-2008-07-19/ I have seen on many engagements the column data type is defined as INT(1). People have the misconception that this numeric integer data type is of the length of one digit, or one byte. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-minimum-testing-for-a-shared-disk-mysql-environment-2008-07-19/ Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:57:28 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-minimum-testing-for-a-shared-disk-mysql-environment-2008-07-19/ Recently I was asked to provide guidelines for testing fail over of a MySQL configuration that was provided by a hosting provider. The first observation was the client didn’t have any technical details from the hosting provider of what the moving parts were, and also didn’t have any confirmation other then I think a verbal confirmation that it had been testing. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/bigint-v-int-is-there-a-big-deal-2008-07-18/ Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:46:51 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/bigint-v-int-is-there-a-big-deal-2008-07-18/ The answer is yes. In this face off we have two numeric MySQL data types, both Integer. In fact MySQL has 9 different numeric data types for integer, fixed precision and floating point numbers, however we are just going to focus on two, BIGINT and INT. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/off-to-oscon-2008-07-18/ Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:32:27 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/off-to-oscon-2008-07-18/ I will be heading to my first OSCON next week where I will be presenting MySQL Proxy: from Architecture to Implementation in conjunction with Giuseppe Maxia . As was written by Colin Charles Our booth is yours… Sun at OSCON , Sun/MySQL would appear to also have a reasonable turnout. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/why-sql_mode-is-important-part-i-2008-07-17/ Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:21:28 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/why-sql_mode-is-important-part-i-2008-07-17/ MySQL pre version 5.0 was very lax in it’s management of valid data. It was easy for data integrity to be abused if you knew how. The most common examples were truncations and silent conversions that if not understood could provide a serious data integrity issue. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/sun-stock-prices-2008-07-17/ Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:46:27 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/sun-stock-prices-2008-07-17/ Sun Microsystem’s (NASDAQ:JAVA ) hit a low this week of $8.71. There was a stronger rally and a close at $9.16 today. The financial times reports Sun Micro chief sees rays of hope , and Bloomberg Sun Rises After Fourth-Quarter Profit Tops Estimates . https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-bill-gates-bio-2008-07-17/ Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:11:54 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-bill-gates-bio-2008-07-17/ In the recent Wired magazine (yes, the paper one), there was an interesting time line of Bill Gates. It was rather an odd format, but I found the two page spread an enjoyable read. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/beyond-blogs-2008-05-26/ Sun, 25 May 2008 23:08:05 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/beyond-blogs-2008-05-26/ I was reading today in a printed magazine Business Week the article Beyond Blogs . It’s unusual these days to actually read on paper what we can find on our online world. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-top-20-design-tips-for-mysql-enterprise-data-architects-2008-04-18/ Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:00:10 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-top-20-design-tips-for-mysql-enterprise-data-architects-2008-04-18/ The slides from my 2008 MySQL Conference Presentation can be downloaded from here . https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/my-hourly-mysql-monitor-script-version-003-2007-05-30/ Tue, 29 May 2007 23:11:18 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/my-hourly-mysql-monitor-script-version-003-2007-05-30/ I realized when I released my very crappy version of My ‘hourly’ MySQL monitor script I really should have included my standard logging. So I did that the night I wrote my original blog, but never published it. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/reading-the-mysql-manual-2007-05-03/ Thu, 03 May 2007 04:31:36 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/reading-the-mysql-manual-2007-05-03/ 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. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-cluster-certified-2007-04-28/ Sat, 28 Apr 2007 02:31:21 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-cluster-certified-2007-04-28/ 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. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-conference-youtube-2007-04-27/ Fri, 27 Apr 2007 03:19:16 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-conference-youtube-2007-04-27/ 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. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-conference-get-behind-dorsal-source-2007-04-27/ Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:11:45 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-conference-get-behind-dorsal-source-2007-04-27/ 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. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-conference-php-on-hormones-2007-04-27/ Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:06:33 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-conference-php-on-hormones-2007-04-27/ 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). https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-conference-google-2007-04-27/ Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:10:39 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-conference-google-2007-04-27/ 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 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-roadmap-2007-04-26/ Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:20:02 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-roadmap-2007-04-26/ 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. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-conference-for-oracle-dbas-and-developers-2007-04-25/ Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:05:18 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-conference-for-oracle-dbas-and-developers-2007-04-25/ 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. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-conference-building-a-vertical-search-engine-in-a-day-2007-04-25/ Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:34:51 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-conference-building-a-vertical-search-engine-in-a-day-2007-04-25/ 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. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-conference-redhat-keynote-one-laptop-per-child-2007-04-25/ Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:27:21 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-conference-redhat-keynote-one-laptop-per-child-2007-04-25/ Our third keynote at MySQL Conference 2007 was titled Building the Ultimate Database Container with RHEL, MySQL, and Virtualization by Michael Evans. The presentation was on Red Hat & One Laptop Per Child. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-conference-the-next-keynote-with-guy-kawasaki-2007-04-25/ Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:54:27 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-conference-the-next-keynote-with-guy-kawasaki-2007-04-25/ Without missing a beat at MySQL Conference 2007, we moved from Marten’s keynote to The Art of Innovation by Guy Kawasaki. Extremely fun and entertaining. His 10 points. 1. Make Meaning https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-conference-pbxt-recognized-2007-04-25/ Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:25:40 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-conference-pbxt-recognized-2007-04-25/ As I mentioned in MySQL Conference – Rewarding the Community , Paul McCullagh, the creator of the Community Transactional Storage Engine PBXT won the Community Code Contributor of the Year award. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-conference-opening-keynote-with-marton-mickos-2007-04-25/ Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:23:17 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-conference-opening-keynote-with-marton-mickos-2007-04-25/ It’s an early start this morning at 8:20am at MySQL Conference 2007 with CEO Mårten Mickos keynote talk Welcome and State of MySQL AB. Here are some of the key points that impressed on me. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-conference-rewarding-the-community-2007-04-25/ Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:14:58 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-conference-rewarding-the-community-2007-04-25/ At MySQL Conference 2007, CEO Mårten Mickos in his opening keynote Welcome and State of MySQL AB rewarded the community. Those that contributed to “The best database in the world”. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-60-2007-04-25/ Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:46:01 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-60-2007-04-25/ If you were quick you may have noticed at the MySQL Conference 2007 keynote Welcome and State of MySQL AB talk this morning, Robin Schumacher in his quick demo of MySQL Monitoring & Advisory Service showed the MySQL Network Enterprise Dashboard, you would have noticed the MySQL Version 6. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/opening-keynote-at-mysql-conf-2007-04-25/ Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:29:56 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/opening-keynote-at-mysql-conf-2007-04-25/ It’s an early start this morning at 8:20am at MySQL Conference 2007 with CEO Mårten Mickos keynote talk Welcome and State of MySQL AB. His spirit is evident with his opening slide “The Participatory & Disruptive spirit of the Dolphin. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-conference-scaling-and-high-availablilty-architectures-tutorial-2007-04-24/ Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:04:11 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-conference-scaling-and-high-availablilty-architectures-tutorial-2007-04-24/ My first tutorial today at MySQL Conference 2007 is Scaling and High Availablilty Architectures by Jeremy Cole and Eric Bergen of Proven Scaling. Basic Tenets While not discussed, the premise is to Cache Everything. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-conference-expo-2007-04-24/ Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:51:21 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-conference-expo-2007-04-24/ The MySQL Conference has started. It will be a long week, still yet to prepare my own presentation for tomorrow. Old friendships already renewed, plenty of faces to names already, and we have yet to hit the first session. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/show-profile-2007-04-20/ Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:39:25 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/show-profile-2007-04-20/ I’ve been playing more with the SHOW PROFILE command available as part of MySQL Community 5.0.37. Thanks to the author Jeremy Cole. This command can provide some interesting insight into the workings of MySQL. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/top-10-things-for-it-professionals-2007-03-24/ Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:16:14 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/top-10-things-for-it-professionals-2007-03-24/ These IT related lists are really quite accurate. I sound like a broken record sometimes when I repeat these things. The articles provides very good detailed descriptions, I’ve included the bullet points just to temp you to read more. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/that-missing-innodb-status-2007-03-20/ Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:12:35 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/that-missing-innodb-status-2007-03-20/ On Thursday I saw something I’d not seen before. An Empty Innodb Status. Now given the amount of output normally shown it was certainly a first. And it looked like: https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/watching-replication-in-action-2007-03-19/ Mon, 19 Mar 2007 01:43:06 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/watching-replication-in-action-2007-03-19/ For all those instant GUI people out there, there is an easy way to watch the present status of your MySQL Slaves using the watch command. $ watch -n 1 -d " https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/smarter-indexing-for-column-like-string-2007-03-07/ Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:11:46 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/smarter-indexing-for-column-like-string-2007-03-07/ With my very heavy travel load and skilling load I’ve not had time to scratch myself. It hasn’t stopped the brain working overtime on various issues including the classic find a pattern in a string starting with a wildcard character. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-is-the-maximum-number-of-colons-that-may-appear-in-a-valid-url-2007-03-01/ Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:10:31 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-is-the-maximum-number-of-colons-that-may-appear-in-a-valid-url-2007-03-01/ In idle conversation I was asked by MM. Question: What is the maximum number of colons ‘:’ that may appear in a valid URL? If you said zero to one, then you are victim of browsers, and you have never used anything but a browser. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/cuuc07-2007-02-24/ Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:58:01 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/cuuc07-2007-02-24/ I’ll be speaking at the upcoming 2007 MySQL Conference & Expo (Why they dropped the word User, who knows), this time with Guy Harrison (Author of many books including [MySQL Stored Procedures][1]). https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/using-innodb-primary-keys-wisely-2007-02-15/ Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:28:05 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/using-innodb-primary-keys-wisely-2007-02-15/ 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. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-camp-t-shirts-2007-01-09/ Tue, 09 Jan 2007 03:03:47 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-camp-t-shirts-2007-01-09/ 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. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-predictions-for-2007-2007-01-01/ Mon, 01 Jan 2007 06:23:44 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-predictions-for-2007-2007-01-01/ 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. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/ny-tech-meetup-2006-12-06/ Wed, 06 Dec 2006 06:08:44 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/ny-tech-meetup-2006-12-06/ 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. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/linux-one-liner-vim-remove-syntax-highlighting-2006-12-05/ Tue, 05 Dec 2006 05:05:40 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/linux-one-liner-vim-remove-syntax-highlighting-2006-12-05/ 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. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/pluggable-storage-engines-what-is-the-potential-2006-11-28/ Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:56:34 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/pluggable-storage-engines-what-is-the-potential-2006-11-28/ 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? https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/zune-or-zzz-2006-11-20/ Mon, 20 Nov 2006 01:25:36 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/zune-or-zzz-2006-11-20/ 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. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-desire-for-performance-sql-tips-2006-11-19/ Sun, 19 Nov 2006 03:14:29 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-desire-for-performance-sql-tips-2006-11-19/ 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 . https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-falcon-2006-11-16/ Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:15:48 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-falcon-2006-11-16/ 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. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/googlewear-2-2006-11-15/ Wed, 15 Nov 2006 02:32:50 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/googlewear-2-2006-11-15/ 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 . https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/myisam-2006-11-13/ Mon, 13 Nov 2006 06:46:25 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/myisam-2006-11-13/ Monty gave us a quick overview of next generation of MyISAM. It is set to include: New data disk format Transaction support multi-versioning row level locking and escalation to table level locks. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/doxygen-project-2006-11-13/ Mon, 13 Nov 2006 00:42:07 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/doxygen-project-2006-11-13/ What the? Well this is the inheritance diagram of the Item Class in the MySQL 5.1 Source tree, nicely documented using the Doxygen tool as mentioned by Jay in his presentation at MySQL Camp . https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/return-to-lobby-camp-photo-2006-11-13/ Sun, 12 Nov 2006 19:49:19 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/return-to-lobby-camp-photo-2006-11-13/ Early on Sunday Day #3, I dragged a few willing participants out for a “different photo” based on the umbrellas in each Lobby. It worked out well. Special thanks to Kynan who ran around to other lobby’s to find additional umbrellas. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-replibeertion-2006-11-13/ Sun, 12 Nov 2006 18:34:23 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-replibeertion-2006-11-13/ MySQL Replibeertion was the last scheduled session on Day 2, but not withstanding there was free beer (a lot of), there was a serious side with a Replication Discussion. One of the first questions by Jeremy was “Are the any big replication users? https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/day-2-memorable-quotes-2006-11-13/ Sun, 12 Nov 2006 18:26:30 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/day-2-memorable-quotes-2006-11-13/ Continuing on from my Day 1 – Memorable Quotes from the MySQL Camp . “Are there any big replication users” — Jeremy “Are you calling me fat again” — Sheeri https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-winter-of-code-2006-11-12/ Sat, 11 Nov 2006 19:31:51 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-winter-of-code-2006-11-12/ Our first session in Day 2 of the MySQL Camp was the MySQL Winter of Code, as well as an overview of the QA Pilot program and Overview of the Community Doxygen Project by Kaj Arnö and Jay Pipes. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/they-start-young-nowadays-2006-11-12/ Sat, 11 Nov 2006 17:41:59 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/they-start-young-nowadays-2006-11-12/ Colin, son of Gary is officially the youngest attendee of the [MySQL Camp][1]. The new breed of MySQL DBA’s. Colin really loves the swivel chairs, and now has is own Google shirt courtesy of Leslie! https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/day-1-memorable-quotes-2006-11-12/ Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:34:29 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/day-1-memorable-quotes-2006-11-12/ Plenty of people are writing highly technical stuff from MySQL Camp including your’s truly. However there needs to be a lighter side here, and well this is it, Memorable Quotes. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/testing-on-the-toilet-2006-11-11/ Sat, 11 Nov 2006 13:28:55 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/testing-on-the-toilet-2006-11-11/ Yes you got it, even while in the restroom here at Google (you can’t say toilets here in the US, because that’s the device), Google keeps you occupied while standing or sitting with the writings of “Testing on the Toilet”. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-camp-introductions-comments-2006-11-11/ Fri, 10 Nov 2006 18:41:24 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-camp-introductions-comments-2006-11-11/ The great thing about this unconference, is the lack of total formal structure. For now , our first session we are having an open introduction of people, there are at good 60+ people here already, and people rolling in, and it’s great to hear people’s background, and also to bag Jeremy Cole at every opportunity. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-update-another-2-mins-later-2006-11-11/ Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:57:58 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-update-another-2-mins-later-2006-11-11/ I’m outside enjoying a very lovely Danish and Orange juice with Jay and Leslie, and like 3 motorised scooters and a guy on a skateboard goes past. Did I mention how cool this place is! https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/my-own-googlewear-2006-11-11/ Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:43:32 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/my-own-googlewear-2006-11-11/ So like two minutes later, some official looking Google people come over and saw “Come on over and get your Google Shirt”. So before the last past is even cold, we have our own Googlewear. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/googlewear-2006-11-11/ Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:39:12 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/googlewear-2006-11-11/ Everybody here (that is not us visitors) are wearing Google shirts. It must be an official clothing label. So Sheeri says “Actually they are just extras, they have been hired for the day. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-quotes-2006-11-09/ Thu, 09 Nov 2006 06:20:03 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-quotes-2006-11-09/ Frank was on a role with MySQL quotes (it’s 1am here in New York – All that Red Bull & Vodka). Here are some of them: Let me scale you! https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-impact-of-mathematics-in-our-rdbms-world-2006-11-07/ Tue, 07 Nov 2006 03:54:41 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-impact-of-mathematics-in-our-rdbms-world-2006-11-07/ We sometimes forget the impact of early mathematicians. Take for example John Venn who introduced the Venn diagram in 1881. This is fundamental for Set Theory, and also fundamental for SQL, the basis of retrieving data in a RDBMS. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/ultimatelamp-passwords-2006-10-27/ Thu, 26 Oct 2006 23:37:40 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/ultimatelamp-passwords-2006-10-27/ For those passwords I have not clearly mentioned within the included wiki documents, here is a summary. UltimateLAMP is built on the VMWare Browser Appliance application, so all Linux passwords match the supplied default. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/an-summary-introduction-to-agile-2006-10-09/ Mon, 09 Oct 2006 07:40:29 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/an-summary-introduction-to-agile-2006-10-09/ Agile Development Methodology: – Most popular Implementations: Extreme Programming (XP), SCRUM, Crystal Links Manifesto for Agile Software Development http://agilemanifesto.org/ General XP Introduction http://extremeprogramming.org/ Agile Resource (Ron Jefferies) http://xprogramming.com/ Good Diagram The New Metholodgy (Martin Fowler) http://martinfowler. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/linux-one-liner-dirtree-alternative-2006-10-09/ Mon, 09 Oct 2006 04:42:56 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/linux-one-liner-dirtree-alternative-2006-10-09/ Linux has a cool command called dirtree that gives a more visual representation of your directory structure. If you have the misfortune of working on a Unix variant that doesn’t have it, checkout this cool one liner. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/log-buffer-13-a-carnival-of-the-vanities-for-dbas-2006-10-07/ Fri, 06 Oct 2006 22:14:28 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/log-buffer-13-a-carnival-of-the-vanities-for-dbas-2006-10-07/ Unlike fellow author Giuseppe of last week’s Log Buffer #12 I volunteered for the job of this week’s Log Buffer . Lots to say, so little time, so lets get started with Log Buffer #13. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/if-you-cant-beat-them-join-them-2006-10-07/ Fri, 06 Oct 2006 22:13:22 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/if-you-cant-beat-them-join-them-2006-10-07/ 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. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/tutorial-beginner-web-services-2006-10-05/ Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:38:39 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/tutorial-beginner-web-services-2006-10-05/ An introduction to using Axis . What is Axis? Axis is essentially a SOAP engine — a framework for constructing SOAP processors such as clients, servers, gateways, etc. The current version of Axis is written in Java. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/when-is-a-batch-job-successful-2006-10-05/ Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:18:36 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/when-is-a-batch-job-successful-2006-10-05/ Simple enough question, and it’s a simple enough answer. When the batch job/process in question successfully completes what it is designed to do and not in error. I’m attempting to test, integrate and document some developed code on a client site, and well, I’m disgusted. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/transforming-xml-with-xslt-2006-09-26/ Tue, 26 Sep 2006 07:12:04 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/transforming-xml-with-xslt-2006-09-26/ I’ve done some work previously in XSLT to nicely format XML output within a browser. Presently, some code I’m working with also does this transforming of an XML output via XSLT into a HTML file. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-is-both-friend-and-foe-2006-09-25/ Mon, 25 Sep 2006 01:04:23 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-is-both-friend-and-foe-2006-09-25/ This is an interesting article How Google can make – or break – your company. The plight of a small business that overnight lost it’s high free search results and in the coming months say a 20% drop in sales. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/asian-air-show-2006-featuring-the-airbus-a380-2006-09-24/ Sun, 24 Sep 2006 07:47:04 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/asian-air-show-2006-featuring-the-airbus-a380-2006-09-24/ While in Singapore earlier in the Year (Yes, I’m very slack with these photos), I got up close and personal with the new Airbus A380. I wasn’t that lucky to get inside, I think that was reserved for airline flight crews, but still there are a few photos. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/flickr-moving-on-from-web-20-2006-09-24/ Sun, 24 Sep 2006 05:33:41 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/flickr-moving-on-from-web-20-2006-09-24/ On the features of Web 2.0 sites is the design pattern concept of The Perpetual Beta (See Point 6). Seems Flickr or more likely Yahoo (the owner of Flickr) wants to be more. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-earth-2006-09-24/ Sun, 24 Sep 2006 03:09:56 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-earth-2006-09-24/ Google Earth and Google Maps can give you some great views of our planet. Here is a full-time blog just for Google Earth. There’s plenty of amazing things to see, check out Top Ten Coolest Things seen with Google Earth. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/plane-spotting-without-leaving-your-desk-2006-09-24/ Sun, 24 Sep 2006 02:07:56 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/plane-spotting-without-leaving-your-desk-2006-09-24/ I’ve heard of people that go plane spotting. Watching different planes that come into airports. I’m lazy, while checking out my home with Wikimapia look what I spotted Here. (Offline image: View) https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-price-for-digg-success-2006-09-24/ Sun, 24 Sep 2006 01:23:58 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-price-for-digg-success-2006-09-24/ I guess much like the Slashdot effect, the Digg effect is both a good thing for your exposure and traffic hits, and a bad thing for those ISP’s watching the traffic. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/planet-kicked-out-of-solar-system-after-failing-test-2006-09-17/ Sun, 17 Sep 2006 08:31:37 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/planet-kicked-out-of-solar-system-after-failing-test-2006-09-17/ PLUTO supporters from all over the world are burning things after the tiny cold planet was booted out of the solar system. The decision caused uproar in the text book and hanging mobile industries, which will have to recall all their products and re-do them, https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/logical-data-modelling-2006-09-17/ Sun, 17 Sep 2006 05:25:31 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/logical-data-modelling-2006-09-17/ 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. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-hobbyist-and-the-professional-2006-09-17/ Sun, 17 Sep 2006 02:49:08 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-hobbyist-and-the-professional-2006-09-17/ 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. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/slow-queries-arent-always-that-bad-2006-09-16/ Sat, 16 Sep 2006 12:07:57 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/slow-queries-arent-always-that-bad-2006-09-16/ 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. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-site-speed-test-2006-09-16/ Sat, 16 Sep 2006 10:05:07 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-site-speed-test-2006-09-16/ Want to know your Internet Connection speed in a real world test? Want a fancy graphical presentation of your internet Speed? SpeedTest.Net has you covered. As you can see that even provide graphics results to can use on your own site. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-doodles-2006-09-16/ Sat, 16 Sep 2006 01:19:52 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-doodles-2006-09-16/ Sometimes using that Firefox Google Quick Search causes you to miss out on the best part of the Google Search experience, and that is the Google Doodle . Now while I’m tempted to include one here, I’m respecting the wishes of Google which request you use an official logo and “don’t feed the kangaroo“. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/stories-that-impress-and-motivate-you-2006-09-16/ Sat, 16 Sep 2006 01:11:09 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/stories-that-impress-and-motivate-you-2006-09-16/ 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. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-trigger-features-2006-09-14/ Thu, 14 Sep 2006 03:21:01 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-trigger-features-2006-09-14/ Sheeri talked a little about MySQL Triggers in One TRIGGER Fact, Optimizer Rewriting Stuff . While it’s great that MySQL 5.0 has Triggers, there are some things that I feel could become features in future releases. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/handling-error-levels-in-logging-2006-09-13/ Tue, 12 Sep 2006 23:46:37 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/handling-error-levels-in-logging-2006-09-13/ In reviewing some provided code to a client, I observed a number of actions contray to generally accepted practices regarding logging. This is what I provided as the general programming conventions with regardings to logging. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-windoze-cli-or-lack-there-of-2006-09-08/ Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:10:47 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-windoze-cli-or-lack-there-of-2006-09-08/ There are many reasons why I hate Windoze, here is just another example. I need via the command line, change to a given directory, so I can manually run a command. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/brisbane-users-group-mysql-hackfest-2006-09-06/ Wed, 06 Sep 2006 06:51:23 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/brisbane-users-group-mysql-hackfest-2006-09-06/ Last night we had a number of keen souls at the Brisbane MySQL User Group . I was very impressed to see the majority of people with laptops at hand. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/compiling-mysql-tutorial-3-debugging-output-2006-09-05/ Tue, 05 Sep 2006 13:53:16 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/compiling-mysql-tutorial-3-debugging-output-2006-09-05/ Continuing on from Tutorial 2 . When reviewing the 2.1. C/C++ Coding Guidelines for MySQL, you will see that the MySQL Source uses within the C/C++ code DBUG (Fred Fish’s debug library). https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-lesson-in-perl-package-syntax-2006-09-01/ Fri, 01 Sep 2006 07:56:18 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-lesson-in-perl-package-syntax-2006-09-01/ I was given a perl program today, however running on my Fedora Core 5 install gave me the following error. $ ./nameofcommand Can't locate Term/ReadKey.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/its-makes-me-cry-2006-08-31/ Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:50:45 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/its-makes-me-cry-2006-08-31/ 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. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/your-ideal-job-requirements-2006-08-27/ Sun, 27 Aug 2006 10:02:45 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/your-ideal-job-requirements-2006-08-27/ I came across in my papers while searching for some taxation information, a list that I made to use as an evaluation in an “ideal job”. This goes with a general comment I made only a few weeks ago to a number of colleagues. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/show-status-gotcha-2006-08-27/ Sun, 27 Aug 2006 09:42:52 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/show-status-gotcha-2006-08-27/ 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. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/microfox-2006-08-25/ Fri, 25 Aug 2006 03:38:32 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/microfox-2006-08-25/ I’ve added Digg to my general lunch time reading web sites. I came across this yesterday. Microsoft invites Firefox development team to Redmond . Well, isn’t that nice, the big boy opening his pond (including all the sharks) to the little fish. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-fast-pace-of-technology-in-a-web-20-world-2006-08-25/ Fri, 25 Aug 2006 02:19:10 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-fast-pace-of-technology-in-a-web-20-world-2006-08-25/ I had need to goto the Wikipedia this morning to review the terminology of something, and on the front page in Today’s featured article is Mercury. Being a tad curious given I’d heard only on the radio a few hours ago that Pluto was no longer a planet in our Solar System, I drilled down to the bottom to check references to other planets (quicker then searching). https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/no-spam-today-2006-08-24/ Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:57:42 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/no-spam-today-2006-08-24/ Huh, tricked you. As if! However I was looking at my Akismet Spam section in WordPress , the open source software that runs my blog, and it gave me this message. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-rat-and-the-cat-2006-08-24/ Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:51:17 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-rat-and-the-cat-2006-08-24/ 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. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/if-you-dont-know-your-data-you-dont-know-your-application-2006-08-24/ Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:31:46 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/if-you-dont-know-your-data-you-dont-know-your-application-2006-08-24/ 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. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/become-named-in-firefox-2-2006-08-22/ Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:00:09 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/become-named-in-firefox-2-2006-08-22/ So, FireFox have come up with a novel idea to promote it’s product. Check out Firefox Day. The official blurb: Share Firefox with a friend. If your friend downloads Firefox before September 15, you’ll both be immortalized in Firefox 2. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/new-toy-2006-08-13/ Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:49:56 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/new-toy-2006-08-13/ Got my new toy today, having only ordered it Thursday night, it arrived Monday. Normally Dell stuff comes from Asia, maybe they had some of these on hand locally. A Dell 2407WFP 24″ LCD monitor with a 1920×1200 resolution. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/peace-man-2006-08-13/ Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:45:30 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/peace-man-2006-08-13/ No, it’s not a slogan from the 1960’s and 1970’s, however if I could draw a picture in a wordpress textarea I’d draw a hand Victory signal with two fingers. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/websites-meebo-2006-08-11/ Sat, 12 Aug 2006 02:19:32 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/websites-meebo-2006-08-11/ WebSite: www.meebo.com If you use Instant Message (IM), but can’t use within an environment, do it via the web. Way Cool https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/pride-2006-08-11/ Sat, 12 Aug 2006 01:40:12 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/pride-2006-08-11/ 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). https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/troubleshooting-wireless-connections-under-windoze-2006-08-07/ Tue, 08 Aug 2006 04:55:27 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/troubleshooting-wireless-connections-under-windoze-2006-08-07/ Router Configuration In order to enable wireless you will most probably have a Wireless Router that is managing your Internet Connection (via cable or DSL), Each router is different, however they generally all have a web interface to access them, the Netgear and DLink routers seems to have generally moved to http://192. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/compiling-mysql-tutorial-2-directly-from-the-source-2006-08-06/ Mon, 07 Aug 2006 09:44:43 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/compiling-mysql-tutorial-2-directly-from-the-source-2006-08-06/ 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. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/compiling-mysql-tutorial-1-the-baseline-update-2006-08-05/ Sun, 06 Aug 2006 07:25:13 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/compiling-mysql-tutorial-1-the-baseline-update-2006-08-05/ 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). https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/compiling-mysql-tutorial-1-the-baseline-2006-08-02/ Thu, 03 Aug 2006 03:00:02 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/compiling-mysql-tutorial-1-the-baseline-2006-08-02/ 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. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/eclipse-cvs-tutorial-2-2006-08-01/ Wed, 02 Aug 2006 02:13:50 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/eclipse-cvs-tutorial-2-2006-08-01/ Following on from my earlier Eclipse CVS Tutorial 1 . Decorators The following options define what is presented in the Navigator View at the project, directory and file levels. Window | Preferences General | Appearance | Label Decorations Team | CVS Team | CVS | Label Decorations | Text Decorations NOTE: There is a Mercurial Eclipse option under the top level menu in Window | Preferences. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/securing-a-tomcat-webapp-part-2-2006-08-01/ Tue, 01 Aug 2006 22:42:05 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/securing-a-tomcat-webapp-part-2-2006-08-01/ If you wish to password protect your webapp with an Apache .htaccess type authentication model, you require two configuration steps. The first within your WEB-INF/web.xml, add the following replacing rolename appropiately. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/securing-a-tomcat-webapp-2006-08-01/ Tue, 01 Aug 2006 22:28:52 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/securing-a-tomcat-webapp-2006-08-01/ If you require a webapp to always run in https mode using a SSL key, then you need to add the following to your WEB-INF/web.xml configuration. <security-constraint> <web-resource-collection> <web-resource-name>jsp</web-resource-name> <url-pattern>*.htm</url-pattern> <url-pattern>*. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-response-to-bugs-2006-07-31/ Tue, 01 Aug 2006 05:52:06 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-response-to-bugs-2006-07-31/ 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. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/determining-linux-video-driver-refresh-rates-2006-07-22/ Sun, 23 Jul 2006 07:29:12 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/determining-linux-video-driver-refresh-rates-2006-07-22/ I found this cool command called glxgears that you can run under X. $ glxgears 10524 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2104.650 FPS 10003 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2000.501 FPS 8417 frames in 5. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/unexplained-replication-authentication-behaviour-2006-07-19/ Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:17:49 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/unexplained-replication-authentication-behaviour-2006-07-19/ 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. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-delicious-2006-07-17/ Tue, 18 Jul 2006 06:16:10 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-delicious-2006-07-17/ WebSite: del.icio.us keep your favorite websites, music, books, and more in a place where you can always find them. share your favorites with family, friends, and colleagues. discover new and interesting things by browsing popular & related items. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-instant-media-2006-07-17/ Tue, 18 Jul 2006 06:12:37 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-instant-media-2006-07-17/ WebSite: www.im.com The Leader in Internet TV There’s a new way to watch TV. Our free software delivers shows to your PC. Subscribe to your favorite channels. New shows will appear instantly. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-squarespace-2006-07-17/ Tue, 18 Jul 2006 06:09:58 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-squarespace-2006-07-17/ WebSite: www.squarespace.com What is Squarespace? Squarespace is a great way to publish and manage a web site online. We let you snap together a web site in a flash that will allow you to manage all of your unique content right in one place. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-digg-2006-07-17/ Tue, 18 Jul 2006 06:06:33 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-digg-2006-07-17/ WebSite: www.digg.com Digg is a user driven social content website. Ok, so what the heck does that mean? Well, everything on digg is submitted by the digg user community (that would be you). https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-zimbra-2006-07-17/ Tue, 18 Jul 2006 05:59:20 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-zimbra-2006-07-17/ WebSite: www.zimbra.com Zimbra is an open source server and client technology for next-generation messaging and collaboration. Zimbra delivers innovation for both the administrator and the end-user as well as compatibility with existing infrastructure and applications (both open source and proprietary). https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-cacti-2006-07-17/ Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:08:13 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-cacti-2006-07-17/ WebSite: www.cacti.net Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool’s data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features out of the box. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-eyeos-2006-07-17/ Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:05:24 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-eyeos-2006-07-17/ WebSite: www.eyeos.org eyeOS is an Open Source Web Desktop Environment, commonly known as Web Operating System or Web Office. With eyeOS you can be organized, work and have fun anywhere, using your own personalized Web Desktop. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-protopage-2006-07-17/ Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:04:02 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-protopage-2006-07-17/ WebSite: www.protopage.com Dynamic Web Page with graphical feeds and movable windows (like postit notes) https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-rrdtool-2006-07-17/ Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:00:28 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-rrdtool-2006-07-17/ WebSite: oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/ The industry standard data logging and graphing application. Use it to write your custom monitoring shell scripts or create whole applications using its Perl, Python or PHP bindings. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-mysql-2006-07-17/ Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:37:36 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-mysql-2006-07-17/ WebSite: www.mysql.com The world’s most popular open source database. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-nagios-2006-07-17/ Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:31:13 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-nagios-2006-07-17/ WebSite: www.nagios.org Nagios is a host and service monitor designed to inform you of network problems before your clients, end-users or managers do. It has been designed to run under the Linux operating system, but works fine under most *NIX variants as well. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-thumbshots-2006-07-17/ Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:27:59 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-sites-thumbshots-2006-07-17/ WebSite: www.thumbshots.org This site enables you to embed a thumbnail image of a website. Rather cool, except there must be some level of caching for new website requests. This page at the time of saving doesn’t show the thumbshot of the official site. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/linux-one-liner-erasing-stuff-2006-07-16/ Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:18:42 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/linux-one-liner-erasing-stuff-2006-07-16/ Don’t try this at home unless you understand what it’s going to do. sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/eclipse-cvs-tutorial-1-2006-07-16/ Mon, 17 Jul 2006 01:22:23 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/eclipse-cvs-tutorial-1-2006-07-16/ Repository Management Start Eclipse Window | Open Perspective | CVS Repository Exploring This will add an icon to the quick dock option. See Point 1 This should open the CVS Repositories View. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-is-a-blob-2006-07-11/ Wed, 12 Jul 2006 01:04:28 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-is-a-blob-2006-07-11/ If your answer was Binary Large Object, then you would be wrong. Check out Mike’s comments on History of Database Blobs from the man that created the BLOB, Mr Jim Starkey. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mercurial-version-control-software-2006-07-10/ Tue, 11 Jul 2006 01:21:23 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mercurial-version-control-software-2006-07-10/ I got asked (being a Java developer) about what was involved in creating an Eclipse Plugin for Mercurial. Well in true Google style, why invent when somebody probably already has. A quick check finds Mercurial Eclipse by VecTrace. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-is-software-quality-2006-07-05/ Thu, 06 Jul 2006 06:18:26 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-is-software-quality-2006-07-05/ Greg Lehey wrote today Is MySQL getting buggier?. The underlying question of his comments is a more fundamental and passionate topic, and especially for me. That is “Software Quality”. The quintessential question is this. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/generating-an-internal-ssl-certificate-for-tomcat-2006-07-04/ Wed, 05 Jul 2006 07:16:06 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/generating-an-internal-ssl-certificate-for-tomcat-2006-07-04/ How to Generate an internal SSL certificate Create the self-signed keystore $ su - $ URL="your.url.here";export URL $ cd /opt/tomcat/conf $ keytool -genkey -alias ${URL} -keyalg RSA -keystore ${URL}.keystore Enter keystore password: changeit What is your first and last name? https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/differences-in-syntax-between-mysql-and-mysqltest-2006-07-04/ Wed, 05 Jul 2006 06:44:12 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/differences-in-syntax-between-mysql-and-mysqltest-2006-07-04/ As I wrote earlier in Using the MySQL Test Suite I found an issue with using the current MySQL Sakila Sample Database as a test with mysqltest. I was running an older version of 5. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/using-pbxt-095-2006-07-04/ Wed, 05 Jul 2006 06:12:02 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/using-pbxt-095-2006-07-04/ Paul has released Version 0.95 of his PBXT MySQL Transactional Storage Engine. Here is what I did to get it operational under CentOS 4.3. su - useradd pbxt su - pbxt wget http://www. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/using-the-mysql-test-suite-2006-07-04/ Wed, 05 Jul 2006 01:07:58 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/using-the-mysql-test-suite-2006-07-04/ MySQL provides two different tools to test the MySQL Server with SQL statements. One is mysqltest and in 5.1 mysqlslap. Both of these tools have quite different purposes. This is a quick review of the usage of mysqltest. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/qmail-admin-2006-07-03/ Tue, 04 Jul 2006 01:10:54 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/qmail-admin-2006-07-03/ For some reason my vqadmin failed to create a new mail domain?? I know I had some /home permissions problems, but that was quite some time ago, perhaps I haven’t added a domain for mail in that time. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/using-cascade-in-foreign-keys-2006-07-02/ Mon, 03 Jul 2006 07:34:15 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/using-cascade-in-foreign-keys-2006-07-02/ For those that are using a Referential Integrity based Storage Engine in MySQL, the use of Foreign Keys can provide an extra level of data integrity within your application. There are of course caveats to this statement, such as correct design, proper transactional use etc, but that’s a topic for another time. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/guidelines-for-managing-embedded-external-project-dependencies-2006-07-02/ Mon, 03 Jul 2006 06:18:40 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/guidelines-for-managing-embedded-external-project-dependencies-2006-07-02/ I’ve yet to find any Java project that doesn’t have dependancies on some other Open Source external libraries. I’ve yet to find a Java project that manages these external dependencies appropiately for support and integration at an enterprise level. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-constitutes-a-good-error-message-to-the-user-2006-06-19/ Mon, 19 Jun 2006 11:45:08 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-constitutes-a-good-error-message-to-the-user-2006-06-19/ Today, will go down in my professional history as quite possibly the lowest I would ever think of a software developer. I’ve carefully avoided the term “fellow coder”, speaking of a IT industry sticking by fellow IT people, but not today. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/open-office-spell-checker-2006-06-18/ Sun, 18 Jun 2006 10:48:35 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/open-office-spell-checker-2006-06-18/ I don’t know why it just isn’t installed by default, but Open Office 2 didn’t install any dictionaries. What’s more depressing, is you go to do a spell check, and it simply states Spelling is Complete. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/firefoxs-live-bookmarks-2006-06-15/ Fri, 16 Jun 2006 02:39:56 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/firefoxs-live-bookmarks-2006-06-15/ I’m just about to launch a new project I’ve been working on in the past week. It has a RSS feed, and I wanted to ensure that within FireFox, this could be picked up as a live bookmark. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-100-best-products-of-2005-2006-06-11/ Mon, 12 Jun 2006 02:35:53 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-100-best-products-of-2005-2006-06-11/ I just created a seperate Gmail account for a new project I started yesterday. One of the default emails, points to Gmail being named the number 2 Best Product of 2005. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/linux-one-liner-finding-stuff-2006-06-10/ Sun, 11 Jun 2006 03:11:55 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/linux-one-liner-finding-stuff-2006-06-10/ Let’s say you created a file in your home directory but can’t work out which directory you put it in. <br /> $ find ~ -name somefile.txt<br /> You can replace ~ (tilda) with a directory e. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/linux-one-liner-parsing-long-html-urls-2006-06-10/ Sun, 11 Jun 2006 02:43:57 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/linux-one-liner-parsing-long-html-urls-2006-06-10/ Ever wanted to look at a long HTML URL more easily, say to investigate a parameter. Here is a search from MapQuest. http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?formtype=address&addtohistory=&address=10%20Market%20St&city=San%20Francisco&state=CA&zipcode=94111%2d4801&country=US&geodiff=1 <br /> $ echo "[insert url here]" | | tr "&? https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/linux-one-liner-security-2006-06-10/ Sun, 11 Jun 2006 02:31:47 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/linux-one-liner-security-2006-06-10/ Here are a few useful one liners for Linux Security. View current packet filtering rules. (i.e. what can and can’t access your computer. <br /> $ iptables -L<br /> On older distros, iptables may not be in place. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/linux-one-liner-using-the-manual-2006-06-10/ Sun, 11 Jun 2006 02:19:48 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/linux-one-liner-using-the-manual-2006-06-10/ For users of Linux regardless of the skill level, using the OS manual is invaluable. Frank gives an example using crontab at Viewing a specific version of a man page , but as with Linux there is always more then one way to skin a cat. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/some-of-mikes-useful-sites-2006-06-10/ Sun, 11 Jun 2006 01:52:36 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/some-of-mikes-useful-sites-2006-06-10/ I haven’t seen any blogging in my normal readings from Mike lately, so taking a quick look directly at his blog. He has certainly been busy in other areas. Some great tibbits and websites. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/linux-one-liner-calculating-used-diskspace-2006-06-10/ Sun, 11 Jun 2006 01:12:27 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/linux-one-liner-calculating-used-diskspace-2006-06-10/ You can easily see the state of diskspace used with the command. <br /> $ df<br /> However, often you want to know where most of the diskspace is being taken. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/new-category-linux-one-liners-2006-06-10/ Sun, 11 Jun 2006 00:45:57 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/new-category-linux-one-liners-2006-06-10/ I came across Frank’s blog Programming – Powerful One liners – “What can a one liner do for you?” Great Idea, I often use one line Linux commands and in my current consulting role, I’m being asked more and more Linux questions, which often result in a one Line answer. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-ideas-2006-06-10/ Sat, 10 Jun 2006 12:49:27 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-ideas-2006-06-10/ Seems I have over time, thought of many ideas, jotted some notes on some, and even done some work, but everybody knows that “home projects” can take a long time. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/wrestling-the-anaconda-2006-06-04/ Mon, 05 Jun 2006 08:38:54 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/wrestling-the-anaconda-2006-06-04/ I’ve decided to affectionally call the MySQL Workbench Product “The Anaconda”. It’s been a wrestle so far to get all the features and functionality I wanted in this product. Of course I’d much rather have seen this product at say version 0. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/how-i-work-2006-06-03/ Sun, 04 Jun 2006 05:15:50 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/how-i-work-2006-06-03/ My work life is really fragmented at present, so I’ve decided a split approach in answer to Dave Rosenberg’s How I Work–what I have learned so far . What is your role? https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-better-vnc-2006-06-03/ Sun, 04 Jun 2006 04:31:11 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-better-vnc-2006-06-03/ I’ve been using VNCViewer from RealVNC under Linux to remote connect to an older machine running windows. Two reasons, I don’t need yet another screen on my desk, and I need windows to adequately test and use the MySQL GUI products, in particular MySQL Workbench. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/improving-open-source-databases-wordpress-2006-05-30/ Wed, 31 May 2006 05:03:16 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/improving-open-source-databases-wordpress-2006-05-30/ As part of both my UltimateLAMP side project, and my greater involvement with MySQL Workbench, I’ve been wanting to review and document the database schemas of Open Source products. Indeed, as part of discussions with Mike Zinner of MySQL AB at the recent MySQL Users Conference, I suggested an idea used in the Java World, for example by Clover and Agitar, where to promote the usefullness of their respective tools (in this case code coverage), they provide results against Open Source Products. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-talk-2006-05-30/ Tue, 30 May 2006 08:24:57 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-talk-2006-05-30/ Google has like many before it such as AOL, Yahoo and Skype created it’s own online chat program, which you can run with a windows program and which is very neatly integrated into Gmail. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/seaching-google-in-klingon-or-elmer-fudd-2006-05-29/ Mon, 29 May 2006 08:22:38 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/seaching-google-in-klingon-or-elmer-fudd-2006-05-29/ Sometimes I wonder how I get to trivial information. Well in the Wikipedia article Google Hoaxes you will find that the Google search engine is valid in a number of unusual languages including Klingon. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-gwt-2-2006-05-28/ Sun, 28 May 2006 08:19:09 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-gwt-2-2006-05-28/ So what is GWT? An extract from the Google Web Toolkit Web Page. _ Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don’t speak browser quirks as a second language. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-gwt-2006-05-26/ Sat, 27 May 2006 09:06:49 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-gwt-2006-05-26/ New to the AJAX vertical space is the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) released the the Sun Java One Conference last week. AJAX (“Asynchronous Javascript and XML”) isn’t new, infact the underlying requirements within AJAX, the DHTML, DOM manipulation and XMLHttpRequest were available in 1997. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-trends-2006-05-27/ Sat, 27 May 2006 08:15:48 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-trends-2006-05-27/ With Google trends you can compare words, and see how they are being used within google searches. You can use it to compare different things. Check it out at http://www.google.com/trends For example, I did a search on MySQL,PostgreSQL,Ingres to compare open source databases. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/migrating-an-myisam-schema-to-use-referential-integrity-2006-05-26/ Sat, 27 May 2006 06:48:25 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/migrating-an-myisam-schema-to-use-referential-integrity-2006-05-26/ Here are some steps involved. Using the current MySQL defacto engine InnoDB. Of course, Falcon, PBXT and others will enable alternative engines to be used. Convert Table Storage Engine Types https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/restyling-a-mediwiki-installation-lesson-1-2006-05-26/ Sat, 27 May 2006 05:32:57 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/restyling-a-mediwiki-installation-lesson-1-2006-05-26/ Following my implementation of UltimateLAMP , read heaps more at this thread , I undertook to provide customizations of a MediaWiki Installation. Here is the first lesson that you can undertake if you wish to beautify the default MediaWiki Installation. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/googlewack-2-2006-05-26/ Fri, 26 May 2006 08:21:23 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/googlewack-2-2006-05-26/ This fad started many years ago, and once I achieved it. Well today, I got the google 1 of 1 result. Here are the rules GoogleWack “Your goal: find that elusive query (two words – no quote marks) with a single, solitary result! https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/ultimatelamp-2006-05-19/ Sat, 20 May 2006 07:19:18 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/ultimatelamp-2006-05-19/ This product is no longer available. This was created over 6 years ago and software is too out of date. As I discussed earlier in [A picture can tell a thousand words][1], I outlined briefly what the intention of **UltimateLAMP** was for. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/unbelievable-bureaucratic-incompetence-2006-05-19/ Sat, 20 May 2006 06:50:23 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/unbelievable-bureaucratic-incompetence-2006-05-19/ Some times I’m just disgusted to be involved in the IT Industry, due to the incompetence of others that then reflect poorly on everybody else. In this case at a present client, a new company wide email implementation using Microsoft Outlook as the Email Client and most likely Exchange Server is occuring. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-picture-can-tell-a-thousand-words-2006-05-19/ Sat, 20 May 2006 04:00:17 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-picture-can-tell-a-thousand-words-2006-05-19/ I’m a keen advocate of MySQL. However, while I use it and promote it within my limited IT circles, I often wonder how MySQL can get better traction and exposure, especially within both the industry sectors and physical locations where I am presently. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-gui-products-2006-05-19/ Sat, 20 May 2006 01:55:31 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-gui-products-2006-05-19/ I’ve started now to actively use more of the MySQL Workbench, MySQL Administrator and MySQL Query Browser and MySQL Migration Toolkit. I am traditionally a very command line person, and it’s important that these skills are never put on the back burner. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/wordpress-blog-upgrade-time-2006-05-19/ Sat, 20 May 2006 01:29:05 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/wordpress-blog-upgrade-time-2006-05-19/ Time to Upgrade my WordPress Blog software from Version 1.5.2 to Version 2.0.2 after my latest spam attacks and Combating Blog Spam attempt. Here is what I did. cd /home/arabx/www tar cvfz blog. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-developer-zone-quick-polls-2006-05-18/ Fri, 19 May 2006 03:38:52 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-developer-zone-quick-polls-2006-05-18/ I don’t get to the MySQL Developer Zone main page often enough. In thinking about what pages I view everyday or regularly, it doesn’t rate as high as Planet MySQL , MySQL Forums or even the MySQL Forge. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/vmplayer-installation-under-linux-2006-05-10/ Thu, 11 May 2006 09:21:05 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/vmplayer-installation-under-linux-2006-05-10/ Install rpm -ivh VMware-player-1.0.1-19317.i386.rpm Configure $ /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl Making sure services for VMware Player are stopped. Stopping VMware services: Virtual machine monitor [ OK ] You must read and accept the End User License Agreement to continue. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/firefox-java-plugin-2006-05-06/ Sun, 07 May 2006 06:44:39 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/firefox-java-plugin-2006-05-06/ Getting the Java (JRE) plugin working in FireFox under Linux. cd /opt/firefox-1.5/plugins rm libjavaplugin_oji.so ln -s /opt/jdk1.5.0_06/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so . MozDev Reference https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/latest-library-editions-2006-05-06/ Sun, 07 May 2006 06:29:47 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/latest-library-editions-2006-05-06/ I’ve had a bit of a windfall of books in the past 2 weeks. I purchased 2 books for the flights to/from the US, picked up an Amazon order on some Database Reference Material for some writings I’m doing, and quite a bounty at the MySQL Users Conference. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/installing-a-new-usb-external-drive-2006-05-06/ Sun, 07 May 2006 04:41:18 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/installing-a-new-usb-external-drive-2006-05-06/ I’ve decide to move from CentOS to Ubuntu as the Linux Distro on my laptop, so it was time to do a full backup to a new USB external drive. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-post-mysql-conference-review-the-4-fs-2006-05-04/ Thu, 04 May 2006 11:47:52 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-post-mysql-conference-review-the-4-fs-2006-05-04/ Finally back home after some R&R at Yosemite before leaving the US. In conclusion, to sum up my experience of the 4th Annual MySQL Users Conference “Excellent”. Here’s my take. Friends, Functionality & New Features, the Future. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-answer-is-pxbt-2006-05-02/ Wed, 03 May 2006 01:14:27 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-answer-is-pxbt-2006-05-02/ Round 2. Question 2? From the MySQL Quiz Show. (you had to be there) https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-stored-procedures-performance-2006-04-29/ Sun, 30 Apr 2006 07:33:23 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-stored-procedures-performance-2006-04-29/ Another one of the sessions at the MySQL Users Conference I attended was Tuning MySQL5 SQL and Stored Procedures by Guy Harrison from Quest Software. A global company with 6000+ customers. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/some-photos-from-the-mysql-users-conference-2006-04-29/ Sun, 30 Apr 2006 04:44:12 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/some-photos-from-the-mysql-users-conference-2006-04-29/ I didn’t take any photos myself at the MySQL User’s Conference. In reflection, perhaps I should. I did make it into some photos however. A few of them here. <td> <a href="http://jcole. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mark-shuttleworth-2006-04-28/ Fri, 28 Apr 2006 18:39:42 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mark-shuttleworth-2006-04-28/ Thursday’s Keynote speaker at the MySQL Conference was Mark Shuttleworth talking on The Ubuntu Project: Improving Collaboration in the Free Software World. Ubuntu from Canonical Ltd is fastly becoming one of the most popular Linux Distributions, based on Debian. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/my-mysql-conference-presentation-2006-04-27/ Fri, 28 Apr 2006 05:19:13 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/my-mysql-conference-presentation-2006-04-27/ My talk at the MySQL Users Conference went well. MySQL For Oracle Developers was part of two talks, the second was by Mark Leith on <a href"http://www.mysqluc.com/cs/mysqluc2006/view/e_sess/8465" target="_blank">MySQL For Oracle DBA’s. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/hacking-mysql-source-improvements-2006-04-27/ Thu, 27 Apr 2006 20:59:00 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/hacking-mysql-source-improvements-2006-04-27/ Further to my earlier post Hacking MySQL Source (in a good way) in which I was having a compilation problem when re-compiling MySQL source (i.e. tt worked the first build, but failed on subsequent re-compiles, even with no changes). https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/contributing-to-the-mysql-community-2006-04-27/ Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:58:38 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/contributing-to-the-mysql-community-2006-04-27/ Everybody can contribute to the MySQL Open Source Community. Here are some ideas: You can start with completely a MySQL Conference Survey form (those forms that we are all avoiding). You can download, evaluate and test newer versions of MySQL Products. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/stumping-a-mysql-guru-2006-04-26/ Thu, 27 Apr 2006 04:34:00 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/stumping-a-mysql-guru-2006-04-26/ At the MySQL User Conference – MySQL Quiz Show we were asked to Stump a MySQL Guru. Well I submitted a few questions, and the first one stumped the guru, being Jeremy Cole, and my prize was a MySQL tee-shirt. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/extracting-user-sql-queries-from-a-mysql-server-2006-04-26/ Thu, 27 Apr 2006 04:26:20 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/extracting-user-sql-queries-from-a-mysql-server-2006-04-26/ Joe Kottke from FeedBurner in his MySQL Conference presentation today FeedBurner: Scalable Web Applications Using MySQL and Java mentioned a novel way of extracting SQL Select Statements from a MySQL Server. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-workbench-extensions-2006-04-26/ Thu, 27 Apr 2006 02:57:51 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-workbench-extensions-2006-04-26/ Just to add some more features of the MySQL Migration Toolkit from the MySQL Conference presentation MySQL Migration Toolkit by Mike Zinner from MySQL AB. You can extend and modify the funcionality of the Migration toolkit with the supplied Eclipse Java project. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-mysql-migration-toolkit-2006-04-26/ Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:11:54 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-mysql-migration-toolkit-2006-04-26/ A Wednesday afternoon presentation at the MySQL Conference was MySQL Migration Toolkit by Mike Zinner from MySQL AB. In summary, the Migration Toolkit currently provides the following feature set. Wizard like interface Plug-in architecture Migration of Oracle/MS SQL Server/MS Access/Generic JDBC Data Sources. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/hacking-mysql-source-in-a-good-way-2006-04-26/ Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:55:06 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/hacking-mysql-source-in-a-good-way-2006-04-26/ HackFest B: Creating a New SHOW Command by Brian Aker at the MySQL Users Conference Brian stepped through the steps for those attending to modify and deploy new functionality in the mysql server. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/pbxt-the-mysql-community-transactional-storage-engine-2006-04-25/ Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:46:04 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/pbxt-the-mysql-community-transactional-storage-engine-2006-04-25/ In having a discussion with Paul McCullagh (the creator of PBXT transactional storage engine) and Taneli Otala MySQL AB CTO after the keynote presentation at the MySQL User Conference, Taneli made the following comment (paraphrased and reproduced with permission). https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/improvements-in-show-status-2006-04-25/ Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:59:11 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/improvements-in-show-status-2006-04-25/ It just dawned on me as this topic was mentioned in a MySQL Conference presentation yesterday in a manual process. So my thought is, why can’t the following functionality be added to the MySQL server. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/could-not-have-said-agile-better-myself-2006-04-25/ Tue, 25 Apr 2006 20:52:59 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/could-not-have-said-agile-better-myself-2006-04-25/ I’ve just attended Scott Ambler’s presentation on Agile Database Techniques: Data Doesn’t Have to be a Four-Letter Word Anymore at the MySQL Users Conference. There is so much content on the topic, it’s impossible to present so much information in a short 45 minute session. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/opening-conference-keynote-2006-04-25/ Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:35:50 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/opening-conference-keynote-2006-04-25/ Mike writes a good summary of the MySQL Conference opening keynote State of the Dolphin: Interview with Kaj, Monty and David of MySQL. I’d like to add just two comments. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/bootstraping-2006-04-25/ Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:21:11 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/bootstraping-2006-04-25/ Tuesday’s Keynote speaking from the MySQL Users Conference including a presentation from Greg Gianforte of RightNow Technologies on “Bootstrapping: Starting an Open Source Business With Almost No Money!” Read More. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/my-first-bof-mysql-guis-2006-04-25/ Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:35:40 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/my-first-bof-mysql-guis-2006-04-25/ Last night, I attended Mike Zinner’s presentation of MySQL GUI’s, most specifically MySQL Workbench. In summary I was very impressed with the current work, and the future potential. I’ve been waiting for now about a year to get access to full strength MySQL Workbench (it has been available for some time, but still in early development), having previously used DB Designer for MySQL Data Modelling. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/save-the-falcon-2006-04-25/ Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:56:07 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/save-the-falcon-2006-04-25/ While many people will be blogging about the conference sessions and MySQL features, functionality and sessions, I thought it would be important to raise awareness of the creativity of developers often lost during the product lifecycle. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/my-mysql-conference-happenings-2006-04-19/ Thu, 20 Apr 2006 00:23:31 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/my-mysql-conference-happenings-2006-04-19/ Everybody has been writing lately of their likes of sessions and events for the MySQL User Conference, time for my 2 cents worth, with a twist. I’ll be leaving early tomorrow at 7am (Friday my time), that’s Thursday 2pm Conference time. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/why-it-professionals-get-a-bad-name-2006-04-05/ Thu, 06 Apr 2006 01:58:59 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/why-it-professionals-get-a-bad-name-2006-04-05/ Sometimes you just can’t find words to describe bad code, and if you are forced into maintenance it can be a mindfield. I’m presently supporting an existing deployed Web Based Java application, which I’ve had no involvement with previously, and for lack of any complements it’s absolutely terrible. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/integrating-svn-into-eclipse-2006-03-31/ Sat, 01 Apr 2006 04:10:30 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/integrating-svn-into-eclipse-2006-03-31/ Being a CVS Version Control Person, I’ve had to learn Subversion as part of Open Source Contribution. Both MySQL and JMeter use SVN. Steps for integration of SVN into Eclipse IDE. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/installing-mysql-5-via-rpm-2006-03-28/ Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:45:05 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/installing-mysql-5-via-rpm-2006-03-28/ I don’t think I’ve ever installed MySQL via .rpm I have always installed via .tar.gz primarilarly because I’m an /opt system administrator from my old UNIX days. so my first experience installing on my CentOS 4. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/more-on-oracle-procedures-functionality-part-2-2006-03-28/ Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:16:58 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/more-on-oracle-procedures-functionality-part-2-2006-03-28/ As mentioned in my earlier post Emulating Oracle Output Functionality, I’ll be speaking at the MySQL Users Conference on the topic of MySQL for Oracle Developers. Here is the second in a series of points regarding current MySQL Stored Procedures and Functions functionality. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/correction-to-earlier-mysql-statement-2006-03-27/ Tue, 28 Mar 2006 03:43:00 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/correction-to-earlier-mysql-statement-2006-03-27/ I stand corrected on my earlier post Emulating Oracle Output Functionality (which I’ve updated) when I made a reference to MySQL catching up. That was not what I was implying, that MySQL had to catchup to Oracle. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-basic-mysql-installation-2006-03-27/ Mon, 27 Mar 2006 12:03:20 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-basic-mysql-installation-2006-03-27/ Given a new Linux Installation, the following is my recommendation for installation of MySQL for a experienced software developer giving flexibility in a development environment. Under normal circumstances, most distros include MySQL either in a default server installation or on the distribution CD’s. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-should-i-install-2006-03-27/ Mon, 27 Mar 2006 11:03:55 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-should-i-install-2006-03-27/ I was asked a simple question today by a collegue who is an experiened Java Developer and Oracle user and had just installed SUSE on his personal laptop, to align closer with his work environment. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/data-modelling-2006-03-26/ Sun, 26 Mar 2006 13:15:01 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/data-modelling-2006-03-26/ I’m a data modeller. I specialise in this, and for a number of years on large projects I’ve been able to focus on this single task within the System Development Life Cycle of software development for several months at a time. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/format-new-linux-disk-2006-03-26/ Sun, 26 Mar 2006 12:17:23 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/format-new-linux-disk-2006-03-26/ fdisk /dev/hdb mkfs.ext3 /dev/hdb1 mkdir /u03 mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb1 /u03 ls /u03 umount /u03 vi /etc/fstab mount /u03 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/contributing-to-jmeter-2006-03-25/ Sun, 26 Mar 2006 04:33:04 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/contributing-to-jmeter-2006-03-25/ As part of my using JMeter for the purpose of testing a new Transactional storage engine PBXT for MySQL, I’ve been investigating the best approach for handling transactions. Read more about earlier decisions at my earlier post Testing a new MySQL Transactional Storage Engine . https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/withdrawl-symptoms-2006-03-24/ Sat, 25 Mar 2006 03:52:56 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/withdrawl-symptoms-2006-03-24/ I’ve recently started a new contract position, and the combination of more restrictive working hours, and at least 1 hour travel each way each day, has lead to me not being about to write like I have of late. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/emulating-oracle-output-functionality-2006-03-24/ Sat, 25 Mar 2006 03:50:12 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/emulating-oracle-output-functionality-2006-03-24/ Updated 28-mar-2006 There really is no way to do a comparision by numbers in features and functionality when it comes to Oracle and MySQL in the area of Stored Procedures and Triggers. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/just-how-many-articles-at-planet-mysql-2006-03-18/ Sat, 18 Mar 2006 14:11:33 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/just-how-many-articles-at-planet-mysql-2006-03-18/ I was trying to find an old article at Planet MySQL . One about a MySQL UDF to write to /var/log/messages. No luck. Anyway, there is no search option on the site, and the latest addition of 10 entries per page makes it difficult to review pages. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-forge-2006-03-18/ Sat, 18 Mar 2006 13:42:04 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-forge-2006-03-18/ I was reading Zack Urlocker’s MySQL Workbench Beta article and was keen to look at the Extensible architecture. Not much detail yet in the Figure Stylesheets, Scripts and Plugins, which will be good when it’s there, however it lead me to another secret. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/another-dissappointing-mysql-article-2006-03-15/ Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:43:58 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/another-dissappointing-mysql-article-2006-03-15/ Another slightly disappointing article regarding MySQL, this one from a printed magazine. Below are my comments to the editor of Linux Format. The Dear Editor is an email link should others wish to make any comments. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/atomicity-consistency-isolation-and-durability-acid-2006-03-14/ Wed, 15 Mar 2006 07:15:09 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/atomicity-consistency-isolation-and-durability-acid-2006-03-14/ ACID is the key transaction processing feature for a RDBMS. Without this, the integrity of the database cannot be guaranteed. In Summary. Atomicity is an all-or-none proposition. Consistency guarantees that a transaction never leaves your database in a half-finished state. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/googlewack-2006-03-14/ Wed, 15 Mar 2006 05:57:54 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/googlewack-2006-03-14/ This fad started many years ago, and once I achieved it. Well today, I got the google 1 of 1 result. Here are the rules GoogleWack “Your goal: find that elusive query (two words – no quote marks) with a single, solitary result! https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/dbus-messaging-error-under-centos-42-2006-03-13/ Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:51:57 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/dbus-messaging-error-under-centos-42-2006-03-13/ The Problem I’ve been getting the following /var/log/messages errors: <br /> Mar 13 21:38:42 lamda dbus: Can't send to audit system: USER_AVC pid=3606 uid=81 loginuid=-1 message=avc: denied { send_msg } for scontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t tcontext=user_u:system_r:initrc_t tclass=dbus<br /> Mar 13 21:39:17 lamda last message repeated 7 times<br /> Based on the command dbus-launch – Utility to start a message bus from a shell script. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/beating-those-annoying-telephone-menus-2006-03-12/ Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:51:25 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/beating-those-annoying-telephone-menus-2006-03-12/ Everybody hates having to listen to automated telephone systems, with long menu options, and you just want to speak to a human, even to be redirected to another human. I can’t count the number of times I’ve been in the menu system for 30 mins. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/testing-a-new-mysql-transactional-storage-engine-2006-03-12/ Sun, 12 Mar 2006 11:59:02 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/testing-a-new-mysql-transactional-storage-engine-2006-03-12/ As part of my A call to arms! post about a month ago, I’ve had a number of unofficial comments of support. In addition, I’ve also been approached to assist in the completion of a MySQL Transactional support engine. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/jmeter-and-ant-integration-2006-03-11/ Sun, 12 Mar 2006 08:12:41 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/jmeter-and-ant-integration-2006-03-11/ Using Ant withJMeter you can achieve remote running and web based reporting. I got the ant-jmeter.jar and sample results output .xls from Embedding JMeter with Ant. JMeter Ant Task <br /> cd /tmp<br /> wget http://www. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/jmeter-performance-testing-software-2006-03-11/ Sun, 12 Mar 2006 07:57:28 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/jmeter-performance-testing-software-2006-03-11/ Apache JMeter is a 100% pure Java desktop application designed to load test functional behavior and measure performance. It was originally designed for testing Web Applications but has since expanded to other test functions. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/using-parrallels-as-a-vm-for-windows-2006-03-09/ Fri, 10 Mar 2006 04:12:21 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/using-parrallels-as-a-vm-for-windows-2006-03-09/ $ su – $ Parallels-config Configuring Parallels Workstation 2.0 build 1514 Configuring Parallels Workstation 2.0 drivers… Compiling Parallels Workstation 2.0 drivers… Drivers have been compiled successfully. Installing drivers… Starting drivers… https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/latest-books-from-amazon-2006-03-08/ Wed, 08 Mar 2006 11:31:42 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/latest-books-from-amazon-2006-03-08/ My latest Amazon book purchases. <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/latest-mysql-versions-under-vmware-2006-03-06/ Mon, 06 Mar 2006 10:30:30 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/latest-mysql-versions-under-vmware-2006-03-06/ I made reference previously to Testing/Trialing new MySQL Releases using VMWare. Well, I’ve just about completed my own Image for the lastest MySQL 5.0 (given I’m now running MySQL 5.1). I’m interested in sharing my experiences, and even providing some images for users if there is any demand out there. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/check-out-the-innodb-site-2006-03-04/ Sun, 05 Mar 2006 02:42:58 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/check-out-the-innodb-site-2006-03-04/ Have a look at InnoDB. Well, ok your lazy, so here’s a screen print below. Plastered thoughout the top section is the word MySQL . It’s in the core banner blurb, there’s a logo, and even links to the MySQL Documentation. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/oracle-comments-2006-03-04/ Sun, 05 Mar 2006 02:21:54 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/oracle-comments-2006-03-04/ Some recent posts regarding Oracle (See Smart moves by MySQL AB and Larry Ellison still doesn’t understand open source ) leads me to put in my 2 cents worth. My background I’m sure like a lot of experienced MySQL people is in Oracle, and indeed in Ingres before that (starting in 1988). https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/tux-2006-03-03/ Fri, 03 Mar 2006 10:24:19 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/tux-2006-03-03/ We all know Tux as the Linux penguin, and those that know me, understand how much I hate Microsoft, and that my [core logo][1], as shown down the right of my blog with Windows Sucks is what I preach. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-call-to-arms-2006-02-14/ Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:39:06 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-call-to-arms-2006-02-14/ With Oracle Corporation purchasing InnoBase, the company providing the InnoDB Storage Engine, and now reliable rumors of the acquisition of SleepyCat, the BDB Storage Engine, both key transactional storage engines for MySQL are effectively owned by a competitor. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/innodb-bdb-what-is-big-red-doing-2006-02-13/ Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:08:35 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/innodb-bdb-what-is-big-red-doing-2006-02-13/ Last year saw a record number of acquisitions by Oracle Corporation. Of note was in October 2005 InnoBase (Read Press Release) which had a direct relationship with MySQL providing the InnoDB Storage Engine. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-benchmarking-2006-02-10/ Sat, 11 Feb 2006 04:14:51 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-benchmarking-2006-02-10/ As of MySQL 5.1.4, there is a supported benchmarking tool called mysqlslap. Not sure where they got the name from, is there going to be a mysqltickle next? create database mysqlslap https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/auditing-an-existing-mysql-installation-2006-02-09/ Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:42:52 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/auditing-an-existing-mysql-installation-2006-02-09/ Yesterday I ran into an old collegue that now runs quite a successful computer store chain and highly successful web store here in Australia. Long story short he was having some MySQL problems, so I offered to pass my eye over it. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-workbench-101-first-impressions-2006-02-08/ Thu, 09 Feb 2006 00:58:44 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-workbench-101-first-impressions-2006-02-08/ These are my first impressions of MySQL WorkBench 1.0.1. Rant and rave you may say, but a new user, or an experienced modeller would probably observe these points. Also, given that (with a poll? https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/testingtrailing-new-mysql-releases-2006-02-07/ Wed, 08 Feb 2006 01:57:11 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/testingtrailing-new-mysql-releases-2006-02-07/ By now, I’m sure you have all heard about Free VMware Player allowing easy and quick access to see, view and use other OS’s easily. For those Windows users out there, now is your chance to trial MySQL under Linux with no impact to your system, why wait. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/using-vmware-server-free-2006-02-07/ Wed, 08 Feb 2006 01:34:58 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/using-vmware-server-free-2006-02-07/ VMware recently released the Free VMware player which allows you to test other OS’s easily in parallel with your current OS. They also provide the Virtual Machine Center so you can even trial easily a number of different pre-packaged solutions. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/running-internet-exploder-ie-under-linux-2006-02-07/ Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:22:15 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/running-internet-exploder-ie-under-linux-2006-02-07/ It’s really so simple, I’m surprised it doesn’t come bundled in distros. (Well I take that back, I’m as anti-microsoft as you can get, but unfortunately, we have to lower ourselves and our good work to the power of Bill who has it over those uninformed majority being brainwashed with a non-standard and flawed browser, that you have to break your code to get to work for it somethings). https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/waterfall-verses-agile-in-software-development-2006-02-06/ Tue, 07 Feb 2006 02:48:01 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/waterfall-verses-agile-in-software-development-2006-02-06/ There appears to be a resurgence of Waterfall Approaches. This upcoming conference, you can find details at www.waterfall2006.com raises some good points that are worthy of review based on the comment that ‘agile is so last decade’. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-working-mysql-workbench-under-linux-2006-02-06/ Tue, 07 Feb 2006 01:16:53 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-working-mysql-workbench-under-linux-2006-02-06/ I must admit I’d given up trying to get MySQL Workbench working under Linux. I guess I’d spent at least 4 or 5 days full time at it, and it was just out of my league, with GTK and C++ errors. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-might-and-the-loss-of-power-to-the-underdogs-2006-02-05/ Mon, 06 Feb 2006 01:59:52 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/google-might-and-the-loss-of-power-to-the-underdogs-2006-02-05/ In doing some Internet Searching I came across an interesting feature on the IBM DeveloperWorks Web Site. For the purposes of this demonstration, I’ve done some more testing to make it easier to demonstrate. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/federated-syntax-2006-02-04/ Sat, 04 Feb 2006 12:13:58 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/federated-syntax-2006-02-04/ I’ve never used Federated. I’m waiting for the JDBC version capabilities so I can connect to a non MySQL Server (specifically Oracle). In reading the docs, I see that the syntax includes a CONNECTION String. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/brisbane-mysql-users-group-meeting-with-brian-aker-2006-02-04/ Sat, 04 Feb 2006 11:57:35 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/brisbane-mysql-users-group-meeting-with-brian-aker-2006-02-04/ We had the privilege of Brian Aker Director of Architecture for MySQL speaking at the Brisbane MySQL Users Group this week (28 th Jan 2006). After the initial discussions on various topics, Brian got into his discussion on MySQL 5. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/pae-support-part-2-2006-02-03/ Sat, 04 Feb 2006 08:42:43 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/pae-support-part-2-2006-02-03/ I’ve solved the PAE Support problem with my current kernel of 2.6.9-22.0.1.ELsmp. Referring to my earlier post PAE Support with the inability to get Parallels VM Software working under CentOS 4. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/solving-the-glibcxx_344-glibcxx_345glibcxx_346-error-2006-02-03/ Sat, 04 Feb 2006 07:58:12 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/solving-the-glibcxx_344-glibcxx_345glibcxx_346-error-2006-02-03/ Let’s review the problem. I’ve got this on a number of occasions and different libraries. Here are some typical error conditions. ./mysql-workbench-bin: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.5' not found (required by ./mysql-workbench-bin) Error: Missing Dependency: libstdc++. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/burning-dvds-under-centos-42-2006-02-02/ Fri, 03 Feb 2006 07:34:02 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/burning-dvds-under-centos-42-2006-02-02/ Attempt to update XCDRoast. Instructions at http://www.xcdroast.org/manual/dvd.html ` su - /usr/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin wget ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/ProDVD/cdrecord-prodvd-2.01a12-i586-pc-linux-gnu mv cdrecord-prodvd-2.01a12-i586-pc-linux-gnu cdrecord.prodvd chmod 755 cdrecord.prodvd exit xcdroast not configured for root usage xcdroast & You will get a warning message, this confirms that prodvd is installed https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/updating-nvidia-drivers-on-my-dell-5150-2006-02-02/ Fri, 03 Feb 2006 07:32:23 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/updating-nvidia-drivers-on-my-dell-5150-2006-02-02/ Details at http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html The latest is 1.0-8178. I currently have installed 1.0-7174 With this version is an auto config tool to do the X conf changes as well. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/another-enterprise-lamp-stack-provider-2006-02-01/ Thu, 02 Feb 2006 07:31:27 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/another-enterprise-lamp-stack-provider-2006-02-01/ ActiveGrid, the Enterprise LAMP company, provides a service-oriented application platform built on the lightweight architecture of the proven LAMP software infrastructure stack. ActiveGrid Enterprise LAMP simplifies and speeds the development of service-oriented applications that weave together existing enterprise systems into new rich web applications and services. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/building-mysql-workbench-101-for-linux-part-2-2006-01-31/ Wed, 01 Feb 2006 05:43:24 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/building-mysql-workbench-101-for-linux-part-2-2006-01-31/ Following my earlier post of MySQL Workbench 1.0.1 for Linux and logging a MySQL Bug, I’ve had the Bug verified, and the a further update of a compiler success. Details of compile from Bug #16880 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/woot-2006-01-30/ Tue, 31 Jan 2006 02:24:30 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/woot-2006-01-30/ I had a friend go woot in an IM message today, and my response was something like. Yes, haven’t been to woot.com for a while, which lead to statement “I didn’t know there was a site”. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-response-to-a-good-book-review-2006-01-30/ Mon, 30 Jan 2006 11:29:24 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-response-to-a-good-book-review-2006-01-30/ I read many years ago now Maverick written by Ricardo Semler. It was a brillant book,that I greatly enjoyed. This book is based on what Ricardo did when he took over his father’s company in Brazil called Semco. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/choosing-a-new-business-it-system-2006-01-29/ Mon, 30 Jan 2006 06:11:22 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/choosing-a-new-business-it-system-2006-01-29/ I know of this not-for-profit organisation that is seeking to find the ideal solution for all of their IT needs. As with most organisations, wish lists are long, and in this case, the pockets are very shallow. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/blogwiki-spamming-what-makes-your-blood-boil-2006-01-29/ Mon, 30 Jan 2006 03:35:16 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/blogwiki-spamming-what-makes-your-blood-boil-2006-01-29/ Well this is low. I’ve just been spammed on my Wiki . And it was cunning, I just found it by accident. An enterprising hacker embedded into my Home Page hidden links that were not visible via normal page view, but ultimately would be via a search bot or some other means. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-sakila-sample-application-2006-01-29/ Mon, 30 Jan 2006 01:24:28 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-sakila-sample-application-2006-01-29/ I’m sure you are all aware by now of Mike Hillyer’s MySQL Sakila Sample Database that will be launched at the MySQL Conference. We now have an official MySQL Forum for this as well. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-workbench-101-for-linux-2006-01-28/ Sun, 29 Jan 2006 06:36:20 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-workbench-101-for-linux-2006-01-28/ Just released at the MySQL Forums yesterday an updated source version of MySQL Workbench for Linux available at ftp://ftp.mysql.com/pub/mysql/download/mysql-workbench-1.0.1.tar.gz . So can Version 1.0.1 compile when I had no success with compiling 1. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/downgrading-a-mysql-schema-from-5-to-4-part-2-2-2006-01-27/ Sat, 28 Jan 2006 06:59:06 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/downgrading-a-mysql-schema-from-5-to-4-part-2-2-2006-01-27/ As requested by <a href=“http://mysqldatabaseadministration.blogspot.com/2006/01/downgrading-mysql-5-to-mysql-4.html" target=_blank”>Frank, here are the working parts of my earlier Downgrading a MySQL schema from 5 to 4 article. The Problem To recap, I received a MySQL Version 5. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-makes-your-blood-boil-2006-01-26/ Fri, 27 Jan 2006 07:40:15 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-makes-your-blood-boil-2006-01-26/ It’s appalling that in this day of technological advancements and communication, the excuse for publishing dated information just doesn’t fly. 50 or 100 years ago you could be excused for writing something that was 6 months out of date, yet this article “Which Database Is Right For You? https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/sequences-in-mysql-2006-01-26/ Fri, 27 Jan 2006 04:28:48 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/sequences-in-mysql-2006-01-26/ One piece of SQL functionality that doesn’t appear to have any consistency or an ANSI SQL Standard is the management of system generated sequential numbers, used for example in suggorate keys. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/win4linpro-trial-2006-01-26/ Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:31:14 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/win4linpro-trial-2006-01-26/ In my continuing effort of finding a suitable complete Windows environment under Linux for those small occasions when you just can’t ditch it, I’ve tried Win4Lin. You can download 2 week evaluation copy from the website. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/xp-january-meeting-2006-01-25/ Wed, 25 Jan 2006 11:13:27 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/xp-january-meeting-2006-01-25/ The Brisbane XP Group met yesterday for a presentation by Dr Paul King of Asert on the book Sustainable Software Development : An Agile Perspective. <p> I found it a good time to get a collective opinion and review of the techniques and methods we are moving towards in Software Development. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/toogle-2006-01-24/ Wed, 25 Jan 2006 03:16:41 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/toogle-2006-01-24/ Well, sometimes you just have to have some fun. Not sure of a pratical use yet. Check out these links. http://c6.org/toogle/index.php?phrase=Linux+penguin http://c6.org/toogle/index.php?phrase=marvin http://c6.org/toogle/index.php?phrase=sunset http://c6.org/toogle/index.php?phrase=daffy+duck http://c6.org/toogle/index.php?phrase=polar+bear http://c6.org/toogle/index.php?phrase=flower http://c6.org/toogle/index.php?phrase=tulip http://c6.org/toogle/index.php?phrase=arabx.com.au https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/404-file-not-found-2006-01-24/ Wed, 25 Jan 2006 01:40:19 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/404-file-not-found-2006-01-24/ Shamelessly stolen from REALITY 2.0 by Doc Searls. (You know the web, page here today, gone tomorrow. If I just have the link, you may not be able to appreciate the image in the future) https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/adding-to-the-library-collection-2-2006-01-23/ Tue, 24 Jan 2006 00:23:33 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/adding-to-the-library-collection-2-2006-01-23/ In the past week I’ve added some more reading to my list, extended the library and hammered the credit card. Some of this has been in part to keep abreast of things as a result of being quizzed in job interviews. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/pae-support-2006-01-22/ Mon, 23 Jan 2006 09:55:58 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/pae-support-2006-01-22/ Well, learnt a new one today. After a recommendation from a collegue about trying Parellels as a VM tool to run on Linux enabling some more virtual OS’s. (a.k.a. Like VMWare), I eagerly downloaded the rpm and installed. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/to-enum-or-not-to-enum-2006-01-22/ Mon, 23 Jan 2006 07:49:37 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/to-enum-or-not-to-enum-2006-01-22/ I’ve never used database columns that embedded defined valid values within the schema definition. Within MySQL there are 2 definitions, ENUM and SET. There are a few reasons why, but first an explanation of these data types. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/playing-avi-files-under-linux-2006-01-22/ Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:27:35 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/playing-avi-files-under-linux-2006-01-22/ Got myself some .avi files but didn’t have a player under CenOS 4.2. MPlayer would appear to rate well as a media player for linux. <br /> yum install mplayer<br /> yum install lame<br /> ` https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/support-for-technology-stacks-2006-01-22/ Sun, 22 Jan 2006 10:34:41 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/support-for-technology-stacks-2006-01-22/ As part of my next conference presentation Overcoming the Challenges of Establishing Service and Support Channels I’ve been struggling to find with my professional sources, any quality organisations that provide full support for a technology stack, for example a LAMP stack, or a Java Servlet stack. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/book-review-beyond-java-2006-01-21/ Sun, 22 Jan 2006 04:29:17 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/book-review-beyond-java-2006-01-21/ Well the title got me when I decided to purchase this book “Beyond Java – A glimpse at the Future of Programming Languages”, however perhaps it should have been titled “Why to move from Java to Ruby” as the book for a good portion is an explanation of how Ruby solves the problems that Java has and the direction Java is moving. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/downgrading-a-mysql-schema-from-5-to-4-2006-01-20/ Sat, 21 Jan 2006 02:18:29 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/downgrading-a-mysql-schema-from-5-to-4-2006-01-20/ Why oh why would you want to do this. Well it my case, I’ve committed to developing a web application using MySQL 5 features, knowing that I had to upgrade my production server from 4. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-challenges-of-compiling-non-working-open-source-part-3-2006-01-19/ Fri, 20 Jan 2006 08:36:28 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-challenges-of-compiling-non-working-open-source-part-3-2006-01-19/ I’m not there yet with compiling MySQL Workbench from the previously released 1.0.0-alpha source for linux. I’d like to think I’m getting closer but not really certain. I’m getting good response to my Bug Report #16604 from MySQL Staff. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/78-2006-01-18/ Thu, 19 Jan 2006 05:36:06 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/78-2006-01-18/ I signed up for Google Talk some time ago, but just could not get the sucker to operate within Gaim successfully. Seems I was missing an advanced setting as found at http://www. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-challenges-of-compiling-non-working-open-source-part-2-2006-01-18/ Thu, 19 Jan 2006 01:24:48 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-challenges-of-compiling-non-working-open-source-part-2-2006-01-18/ Did I push to much in my last post? I don’t think so, but I guess it’s a fragile balance sometimes in Open Source between those keen end users, and the developers that do give so much towards their own creations (I understand, I’m in that category myself). https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-challenges-of-compiling-non-working-open-source-2006-01-18/ Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:40:31 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-challenges-of-compiling-non-working-open-source-2006-01-18/ One of the great benefits of Open Source, it’s Free, and you can get great support, sometimes even from the developers directly (rather then 5 levels of paid customer support for a commercial product). https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/database-modelling-software-for-mysql-2006-01-17/ Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:07:44 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/database-modelling-software-for-mysql-2006-01-17/ I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place. I’ve been using DBDesigner 4 from FabForce, an open source visual design tool, and apart from working around a number of bugs, I’ve found it practical to design from scratch. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/how-many-installations-and-just-what-are-they-doing-2006-01-16/ Tue, 17 Jan 2006 02:10:20 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/how-many-installations-and-just-what-are-they-doing-2006-01-16/ Would it not be great if on the MySQL website there was a page of stats (updated daily) that provided statistics like number of installations, a breakdown of versions registered (not certain I like that exact word) , OS’s, countries etc. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-51-is-gaining-some-momentum-2006-01-15/ Mon, 16 Jan 2006 05:15:15 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/mysql-51-is-gaining-some-momentum-2006-01-15/ It wasn’t that long ago that MySQL released the GA Release of Version 5.0 with major new features (Oct 24 2005). It still took 5.0 about a year to go from alpha to GA, however I’d suspect a much shorter turnaround this time. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/unit-testing-a-database-2006-01-15/ Mon, 16 Jan 2006 02:54:49 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/unit-testing-a-database-2006-01-15/ In a recent job interview I was asked the question regarding Unit Testing/Automated Testing of a Database? An interesting question and indeed an interesting problem. I thought it was a good topic to describe what I’ve done in the past, and where I would go for a more complete testing environment given the opportunity of a entire XP project. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/some-light-hearted-google-fun-2006-01-14/ Sun, 15 Jan 2006 06:12:24 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/some-light-hearted-google-fun-2006-01-14/ Sometimes I wonder how I get to trivial information. Well in the Wikipedia article Google Hoaxes you will find that the Google search engine is valid in a number of unusual languages including Klingon. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/database-modelling-within-an-xp-methodology-2006-01-13/ Sat, 14 Jan 2006 08:24:08 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/database-modelling-within-an-xp-methodology-2006-01-13/ In an eXtreme Programming (XP) Agile Methodology approach towards software development the absence of adequate database design, or the scant regard of it, with the assumption that a framework and persistence infrastructure will take care of that can be a disaster in a larger enterprise solution. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/ruby-2006-01-12/ Thu, 12 Jan 2006 10:28:04 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/ruby-2006-01-12/ Being a little despondent regarding Spring, a framework I’ve chosen to skill up in Read More , I’ve changed tack to investigate further Ruby. I was in a training demonstration of Ruby late last year, I’ve had other colleagues talk about it, and in a number of readings of late, Ruby has been making an impact, so time to delve in. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/book-review-part-1-better-faster-lighter-java-2006-01-11/ Thu, 12 Jan 2006 07:35:39 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/book-review-part-1-better-faster-lighter-java-2006-01-11/ Well if the weight of the book has anything to do with it, it’s the lightest Java book I’ve got. Better, Faster, Lighter Java, which I got from Amazon, has been a quick read. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-java-spring-framework-2006-01-10/ Wed, 11 Jan 2006 05:10:20 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-java-spring-framework-2006-01-10/ I’ve been reading Spring in Action as part of reskilling in Spring Framework and Hibernate. The rationale of this was, I wanted a better testing capacity of my web apps, and after some review of a number of options and input from other colleagues I went down the Spring path. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/handling-user-requests-of-i-got-an-error-2006-01-09/ Tue, 10 Jan 2006 08:31:40 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/handling-user-requests-of-i-got-an-error-2006-01-09/ Don’t you just hate that, a user at the end of the day, week, or only when you ask them say “I got an error.” Ok, well can you give me some more information. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-do-you-want-in-a-job-2006-01-09/ Mon, 09 Jan 2006 12:58:01 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-do-you-want-in-a-job-2006-01-09/ Well it’s a good question, as part of sorting out tax documentation I came across the following list (go figure why it was with tax stuff). I made this list sometime mid 2002, I remember specifically the job I made the list for to evaluate. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/linux-format-reader-awards-2006-2006-01-04/ Thu, 05 Jan 2006 02:55:13 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/linux-format-reader-awards-2006-2006-01-04/ The Linux Format magazine is having it’s annual reader awards in a number of categories. These include (I’ve include my picks after each category): Best Desktop Application (Gnome) Best Distro (CentOS 4. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/whats-in-a-wiki-2006-01-01/ Mon, 02 Jan 2006 05:56:24 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/whats-in-a-wiki-2006-01-01/ I’ve been wondering what exactly is a wiki? It’s also not the first time I’ve been asked myself. Here is an explaination I came across. A wiki, from the Hawaiian term for “quick,” is an ongoing, ever-evolving, organized compilation of information. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/windoze-and-microspew-at-it-again-2005-12-29/ Fri, 30 Dec 2005 05:41:49 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/windoze-and-microspew-at-it-again-2005-12-29/ In reading the Google News Sci/Tech headlines today, near the top was the following article. Windows Security Flaw Is ‘Severe’ Washington Post – 36 minutes ago A previously unknown flaw in Microsoft Corp. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/adding-to-the-library-collection-2005-12-26/ Tue, 27 Dec 2005 05:48:59 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/adding-to-the-library-collection-2005-12-26/ I took the chance today to order some books from Amazon today to add to the library. Of course I’m still reading 2 current books Spring in Action and the MySQL Certification Study Guide in order to site the second MySQL Professional Certification Exam. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/christmas-present-2005-12-25/ Mon, 26 Dec 2005 06:00:51 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/christmas-present-2005-12-25/ I got a lovely christmas present today, and well it’s so me. And knowing the person in question, I’m assuming he got it from Think Geek. Thanks Andrew. View https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/promoting-a-new-feed-icon-2005-12-24/ Sat, 24 Dec 2005 13:55:38 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/promoting-a-new-feed-icon-2005-12-24/ I found this site which is promoting the use of a unified feed icon. Firefox started it, IE is onboard, it’s time for us to back up around it. Spread the joy. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/upcoming-mysql-users-conference-presentation-2005-12-21/ Thu, 22 Dec 2005 08:39:02 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/upcoming-mysql-users-conference-presentation-2005-12-21/ I’ve been accepted to present at the MySQL Users Conference 2006 held in Santa Clara, California next year. My paper will be particularly targeting Oracle Developers, and will be combined with another presentation targeting Oracle DBA’s. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/december-java-users-group-talk-on-ajax-2005-12-19/ Tue, 20 Dec 2005 01:01:12 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/december-java-users-group-talk-on-ajax-2005-12-19/ I attended the December meeting of the Brisbane Java Users Group last night. The presenters Alex and Brad from Working Mouse a Brisbane Based J2EE Solutions Provider gave a talk on AJAX. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/xp-group-in-brisbane-2005-12-16/ Sat, 17 Dec 2005 04:59:28 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/xp-group-in-brisbane-2005-12-16/ Brisbane has another XP Group. Just found out about it. Info can be found at http://groups.google.com/group/Brisbane-XP . I’ve been involved in some part in 2 previous groups in Brisbane. I’m thinking about some ideas myself, I’ve got all the XP skills, however I’m now skilling up in Spring (a full-stack Java/J2EE application framework) and Hibernate (a powerful, ultra-high performance object/relational persistence and query service for Java). https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/speaking-at-mysql-users-group-2005-12-15/ Fri, 16 Dec 2005 04:20:49 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/speaking-at-mysql-users-group-2005-12-15/ I’m preparing to speak at the next MySQL Brisbane Users Group in Febraury 2006. My topic will be Know your competitor – A MySQL Developers Guide to Using Oracle Express Edition. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/upcoming-open-source-conference-presentation-2005-12-15/ Fri, 16 Dec 2005 02:13:09 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/upcoming-open-source-conference-presentation-2005-12-15/ I’ve been working recently on a paper I’m presenting to a conference in February 2006 titled Implementing Open Source for Optimal Business Performance. I’ve got the final glossy brochure yesterday so I now have something to show everybody. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/review-of-database-magazine-article-the-usual-suspects-2005-12-13/ Wed, 14 Dec 2005 06:08:23 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/review-of-database-magazine-article-the-usual-suspects-2005-12-13/ In the “Australian Technology and Business Magazine” – December 2005 edition there was an article on comparing database products. Here are my comments, which I also plan to forward to the editor. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-20-design-patterns-2-2005-12-05/ Tue, 06 Dec 2005 01:42:20 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-20-design-patterns-2-2005-12-05/ In his book, “A Pattern Language”, Christopher Alexander prescribes a format for the concise description of the solution to architectural problems. He writes: “Each pattern describes a problem that occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it the same way twice. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-is-web-20-2005-12-04/ Mon, 05 Dec 2005 00:19:43 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/what-is-web-20-2005-12-04/ In his article What Is Web 2.0 – Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software Tim O’Reilly gives a very detailed description of these seven principles. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/myths-open-source-developers-tell-ourselves-2005-12-02/ Fri, 02 Dec 2005 10:25:36 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/myths-open-source-developers-tell-ourselves-2005-12-02/ Some interesting points from this ONLamp article on Myths Open Source Developers Tell Ourselves Publishing your Code Will Attract Many Skilled and Frequent Contributors Myth: Publicly releasing open source code will attract flurries of patches and new contributors. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-20-not-to-be-confused-with-internet2-2005-12-01/ Fri, 02 Dec 2005 07:34:38 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/web-20-not-to-be-confused-with-internet2-2005-12-01/ What is Web 2.0? Well the definitions out there aren’t clear and precise. Tim O’Reilly from O’Reilly Publishing has a detailed description at http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6228 . (More notes from this below) His compact description is: https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/quotes-from-web-20-conference-2005-12-01/ Fri, 02 Dec 2005 07:29:31 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/quotes-from-web-20-conference-2005-12-01/ I’m writing something about Web 2.0, but I got distracted by the random header quotes that appear on the website at www.web2con.com . Never being a Simpon’s fan, but it reminds me of those sites out there with all Bart’s blackboard quotes. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-better-approach-to-using-china-for-software-development-2005-11-30/ Thu, 01 Dec 2005 02:09:26 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/a-better-approach-to-using-china-for-software-development-2005-11-30/ India and China are the next powerhouses of software development, simply due to the numbers, but I’ve never heard a good report (maybe I have to dig deeper). My recent experiences are with Australian companies placing call centres in these countries, and almost always the language barrier is a clear limit. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/handling-spam-2005-11-29/ Wed, 30 Nov 2005 05:03:24 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/handling-spam-2005-11-29/ Well it’s not a new debate, thats for sure, and I have very strong views on this topic (especially blacklists and ISP’s restricting trade), as well as an approach to a new Protocol termed ‘Authenicated Mail’ or ‘amail’. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/blog-upgrade-time-again-2005-11-24/ Fri, 25 Nov 2005 01:31:23 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/blog-upgrade-time-again-2005-11-24/ Well, in the space of a few months, I’ve outgrown the previous Drupal version I was using for Blogs, which was a replacement of an earlier Blog implementation. The primary reason was better date based indexing, either by months, or calendar functions. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/degrees-of-separation-1-mysql-to-open-source-definition-to-2005-open-source-awards-2005-11-19/ Sun, 20 Nov 2005 02:56:54 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/degrees-of-separation-1-mysql-to-open-source-definition-to-2005-open-source-awards-2005-11-19/ I often when reading articles end up where I never started on the web. You can find some amazing things, and of course lose a lot of time. I think it’s about time to document my degrees of separation from time to time. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/say-no-to-word-document-attachments-2005-09-20/ Tue, 20 Sep 2005 07:23:28 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/say-no-to-word-document-attachments-2005-09-20/ Interesting read at http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html I found this in a signuature footer. Worthy of consideration. Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/new-techstuff-blog-2005-09-07/ Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:58:15 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/new-techstuff-blog-2005-09-07/ Well, it was about time to move to a more standard Blog for my TechStuff, rather then mixing with my personal blog at http://blog.ronaldandanna.com . As I wrote this blog software in a few hours one day, and never got around to finishing things like a calendar and RSS feeds, it was also another good excuse to try out Drupal.