MySQL
I’m at Google Mountain View
We have made it to MySQL Camp being held at Google Head Quarters in Mountain View California. Directions WOOT!!! So we are at the lobby reception of Building 40 , and I’m lounging back in a large green beanbag behind all the name tags, this is so cool, the problem is with all our technology, nobody yet has the capability to read the photos from a digital camera so I can upload it.
MySQL Quotes
Frank was on a role with MySQL quotes (it’s 1am here in New York – All that Red Bull & Vodka). Here are some of them: Let me scale you!
Log Buffer #13: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
Unlike fellow author Giuseppe of last week’s Log Buffer #12 I volunteered for the job of this week’s Log Buffer . Lots to say, so little time, so lets get started with Log Buffer #13.
If you can’t beat them, join them!
Like fellow friends and MySQL’ers before me Morgan, Roland, Giuseppe, Markus and Sean , I’ve joined the MySQL juggernaut on the ride of my life, achieving two of my short/medium term professional goals in one step.
Logical Data Modelling (LDM)
Following my User Group Presentation I was asked by fellow MySQLer Kim about Logical Data Modelling (LDM), in relation to Physical Data Modelling. Well, first the brain had to work overtime to remember when was the last time I worked on a Logical Data Model.
Slow Queries aren’t always that bad!
Well, now I have your attention, Slow Queries are bad (unless it’s a single user system and you don’t care). However there are worse things then slow queries in a large enterprise system.
Stories that impress and motivate you
I’ve worked for two Internet startup companies, both around 2 years each, both now long dead. The first was due to eventual lack of new VC funds, the second gross financial managment in the second year (apparently, when we were told there was no money December one year to pay us, the company that made large profits every month for over the first year, then had made losses every month for the past 12 months, but nobody knew about it.
MySQL Trigger Features
Sheeri talked a little about MySQL Triggers in One TRIGGER Fact, Optimizer Rewriting Stuff . While it’s great that MySQL 5.0 has Triggers, there are some things that I feel could become features in future releases.
Brisbane Users Group – MySQL Hackfest
Last night we had a number of keen souls at the Brisbane MySQL User Group . I was very impressed to see the majority of people with laptops at hand.
Compiling MySQL Tutorial 3 – Debugging Output
Continuing on from Tutorial 2 . When reviewing the 2.1. C/C++ Coding Guidelines for MySQL, you will see that the MySQL Source uses within the C/C++ code DBUG (Fred Fish’s debug library).
It’s makes me cry
I got home today and sat down to read my home email list. Nothing new. But on a MySQL mailing list, there was an enquiry why performance was slowing in a given application.
SHOW STATUS Gotcha
Well, it’s Sunday night so I will put this down to being the weekend. The background to being caught out is a request I made to my local Users Group mailing list for some information on people’s environments because I wanted to some empirical data analysis without having any more knowledge of the systems.
The fast pace of technology in a Web 2.0 world
I had need to goto the Wikipedia this morning to review the terminology of something, and on the front page in Today’s featured article is Mercury. Being a tad curious given I’d heard only on the radio a few hours ago that Pluto was no longer a planet in our Solar System, I drilled down to the bottom to check references to other planets (quicker then searching).
The RAT and the CAT
No, it’s not a bedtime story, is a serious system’s design concept and I’m amazing that people don’t know about this. As I mentioned in If you don’t know your data, you don’t know your application I was doing a Java Code Review, and I found a clear case of a much simplier solution.