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The top 20 design tips for MySQL Enterprise data architects

The slides from my 2008 MySQL Conference Presentation can be downloaded from here .

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My ‘hourly’ MySQL monitor script Version 0.03

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.

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Reading the MySQL Manual

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.

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MySQL Cluster Certified

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.

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MySQL Conference – YouTube

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.

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MySQL Conference – Get Behind Dorsal Source

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.

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MySQL Conference – PHP on Hormones

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).

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MySQL Conference – Google

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

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MySQL Roadmap

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.

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MySQL Conference – For Oracle DBAs and Developers

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.

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MySQL Conference – Building a Vertical Search Engine in a Day

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.

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MySQL Conference – RedHat Keynote – One Laptop Per Child

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.

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MySQL Conference – The next keynote with Guy Kawasaki

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

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MySQL Conference – PBXT Recognized

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.

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