MySQL

The 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.

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Storage 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).

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Hamburg 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).

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A 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.

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Unexpected 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.

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Come 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.

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Not Stuck

Contrary to my earlier April Fool’s Stuck – No country to call home I’m alive and well in Hamburg Germany with my new job. Thanks for those concerned MySQL souls that fell pray to my “Evil Genius” as Farhan called it.

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A 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 .

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Limiting 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.

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Learning 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.

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Open 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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Just what are MySQL 9.x features?

Top marks to Jay Pipes for getting the Forge 2.0 finally out after quite some time, as well as in the midst of the MySQL Conference he is organizing. I am worried however about some of the content, as shown in the screenshot below, the opening page lists Worklog tasks/features for versions 6.

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NY PHP – Sun & MySQL: A New Hope

Tonight’s New York PHP community meeting was a talk by Philip Antoniades the MySQL Systems Engineering Manager. With an interesting topic opener “A New Hope” I could not resist to hear Philip’s official MySQL presentation.

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