MySQL
Announcing Drizzle on EC2
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.
Adding a Drizzle Plugin
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 .
Percona Performance Conference Talk
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.
MySQL Monitoring 101
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.
A change in the MySQL Binary distributions
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.
Setting up MySQL on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Presentation
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.
What’s happening with InnoDB
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.
Search at Craigslist
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.
MySQL Users Conference Opening Lines
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Developing Code Coverage for MySQL tests
I have always been a strong advocate of good testing of any system. I started on a project last year with Drizzle to produce coverage tests to facilitate verifying syntax and helping in comparison with MySQL.