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MySQL Conference – Opening Keynote with Marton Mickos

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.

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MySQL Conference – Rewarding the Community

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”.

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MySQL 6.0

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.

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Opening Keynote at MySQL Conf

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.

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MYSQL Conference – Scaling and High Availablilty Architectures Tutorial

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.

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MySQL Conference & Expo

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.

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SHOW PROFILE

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.

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Top 10 Things for IT Professionals

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.

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That missing INNODB STATUS

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:

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Watching Replication in action

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 "

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Smarter indexing for column LIKE ‘%string%’

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.

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What is the maximum number of colons ‘:’ that may appear in a valid URL?

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.

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CU@UC07

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]).

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Using Innodb Primary Keys wisely

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.

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