General

Where is the MySQL in Sun’s announcement

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.

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Drizzle + PHP = Sweet

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.

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What questions do you ask?

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.

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mysql.com search is so broken

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.

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A beginners look at Drizzle – SQL_MODE

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.

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Identifying resource bottlenecks – Memory

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.

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Identifying resource bottlenecks – CPU

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.

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Two FREE MySQL Conferences Next Month

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.

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Twitter Tips

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.

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Priceless Monty

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.

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Hurting the little guy?

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:

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Understanding the various MySQL Products & Variants

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.

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Beginner CSV Engine issues

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.

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Infobright Community Edition(ICE) – It’s Free

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.

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