MySQL
Support the MySQL Community Photo Day
Updated On good advice from Sheeri I made a few comments clearer. It has been proposed that the integral “MySQL Community Photo Day” be on Thursday April 17 2008, the final day of the MySQL Users Conference.
Read moreReplication++, Replication 2.0, Replication.Next
There has been some discussion recently regarding the death of MySQL Read Replication starting with Brian Aker and then Farhan , Arjen and Paul have all chimed in. Whatever you want to call it, the next generation of replication approach is clearly on the agenda of the industry leaders and pack followers.
Read moreThe MySQL SandBox
This week I’d expected to hear good friend Giuseppe (CCO) Maxia speak about MySQL SandBox at the Hamburg MySQL April Meetup . This is product I’ve thought about using, wanted to use, but just never got to the point to using.
Read moreStorage Engines at the MySQL Conference
I’ll be following closely the progression of Storage Engines available in the MySQL Database server, well soon to be available when 5.1 gets to GA (hopefully by end of Q2 which is what we have been told).
Read moreHamburg MySQL Meetup – Apr 2008
Tonight’s Hamburg MySQL Meetup was a packed room of 60-70 people at Sun in Hamburg. The most I’ve seen @ a MySQL Meetup across three cities, countries, continents and years (my first Oct 5, 2004).
Read moreA heartfelt apology
While I mentioned in Not Stuck , “thanks to those concerned”, perhaps I did not illustrate clearly that I was suitability moved by the genuine concern of close friends regarding my plight, and I did really appreciate the comments and initial feedback.
Read moreUnexpected SEO results
I had need to show the official MySQL business shirt to somebody, so I did a Google Search on “mysql conference photos” (without the quotes) as I know I’ve seen photos of staff at the conference online before.
Read moreCome and get a t-shirt at UC2008
Here I am at my desk sporting the PrimeBase supporters t-shirt that will be available at the exhibitors booth at the 2008 MySQL Conference . The front is rather uneventful with the official logo, but the back will be worth the experience.
Read moreA day with Paul McCullagh – Architect of PBXT and BlobStreaming
Continuing on from my lightning visits with Jan Kneschke and Michael Zinner , today I got to spend a day with Paul McCullagh at his home in Hamburg Germany .
Read moreLimiting your result set, but getting count of all rows
In reviewing some of my notes I thought it was relevant to ensure this small MySQL gem is documented for my history purposes. Historically I’ve seen people do a complex SELECT statement twice, first to get a COUNT(*) and then to retrieve the data, perhaps in a paginated format.
Read moreLearning SEO the painful way
Indeed I have a goal of launching a consolidated site of my online presence at ronaldbradford.com at some time soon, and even now I have found I’ve made some SEO 101 mistakes, just in my testing site, and my temporary placeholder.
Read moreOpen Source Database Alternative – Ingres
On several occasions this year I’ve been prompted to mention in conversation Ingres as an alternative Open Source Database. Jonathan Levin in A list of Open-Source Alternatives to Business Applications was the latest example where Ingres was not mentioned and perhaps it should have been.
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