Oracle
Don’t Assume Series – MySQL for the Oracle DBA
As part of my MySQLCamp for the Oracle DBA series of talks to help the Oracle DBA understand, use and appreciate MySQL I have also developed a series of short interesting posts I have termed “Don’t Assume”.
Read moreEdward Screven of Oracle to Answer Questions for future of MySQL
For those of you on the O’Reilly MySQL conference list you will no doubt see this email, but for readers here is the important bits. _ Oracle Executive Will Speak at O’Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo
Read moreWhat do MySQL staff think of the acquisition?
It finally dawned on me while reflecting on the year past this Sunday that the missing voice since the announcement of the Oracle acquisition of Sun Microsystems (and therefore MySQL) has been the MySQL employees.
Read moreThe Oracle EU statement on MySQL – What’s missing
Many providers embedd MySQL with their commercial products including Adobe, Macfee, Nokia, Symantec and ScienceLogic just to name a few. In addition most commercial third party storage engines have for years been forced to provided very customized versions of MySQL due to limitations in the storage engine API.
Read moreNoSQL options
The NoSQL event in New York had a number of presentations on non relational technologies including of Hadoop , MongoDB and CouchDB . Coming historically from a relational background of 20 years with Ingres , Oracle and MySQL I have been moving my focus towards non relational data store.
Read moreWhat to do at 3:25am
Look at MySQL bug reports of course? Well actually I’m writing multiple blog posts, and I was confirming additional reference sources and links when I came across MySQL Bug #29847 – Large CPU usage of InnoDB crash recovery with a big buf pool.
Read moreTranscending Technology Specific Boundaries
I had the pleasure to sit on the Performance Panel at the recent Percona Performance Conference . While the panel contained a number of usual MySQL suspects, one person was not familiar, that being Cary Millsap from Method R .
Read moreMySQL for the Oracle DBA Resources
The announcement last month of Oracle to acquire Sun continues to warrant a lot of discussion over exactly what Oracle will do with MySQL. Only time will tell what will happen with the official product, however it is important to remember that MySQL is GPL, there will always be a free version of MySQL available for popular LAMP stack products such as WordPress and Drupal and new and existing startup’s will continue to use MySQL.
Read moreOne advantage of Oracle/Sun/MySQL
This weeks’ announcement Oracle to by Sun was a major talking point at the 2009 MySQL Conference & Expo . While it is too early to even speculate what the future holds with the official MySQL product, for myself a speaker on MySQL topics, Oracle Open World is now a target market.
Read moreBest Practices in Migrating to MySQL
This week I was the invited speaker to give a 4 hr presentation to the Federal Government Sector in Washington DC on “Best Practices in Migrating to MySQL“. This was a followup to my day long “MySQL for the Oracle DBA Bootcamp” which I presented in Washington DC last year.
Read moreMySQL at Oracle Open World
Yes, it may seem rather strange to the readers but MySQL has a booth at this week’s Oracle Open World 2007 and I’m here in San Francisco Wednesday and Thursday. If your in SF come in and say hi.
Read moreLearning MySQL as an Oracle DBA
Updated I have an entire section now devoted to various MySQL for the Oracle DBA Resources . You will find additional information here. This week I presented two one day free seminars, “MySQL DBA Bootcamp for the Oracle DBA ” in New York and San Francisco.
Read moreMySQL 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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