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Still room at Kaleidoscope for MySQL attendees
Today I received notice that next week’s Velocity conference is at maximum capacity. With just under 2 weeks before the start of ODTUG Kaleidoscope in Washington DC we still have room for late registrations.
Read moreMongoDB Experience: Replication 101
After successfully installing and testing mongoDB it’s very easy to create a replication environment. $ mkdir -p data/{master,slave} $ mongod --dbpath=`pwd`/data/master --master --port 28011 > master.log 2>&1 & # Always check your log file $ cat master.
Read moreFree MySQL Event in Washington DC
As the program chair for the recently announced MySQL Track at the ODTUG Kaleidoscope conference located in Washington DC we are also looking into an associated free community event for MySQL locals in addition to a dedicated track for 4 days.
Read moreState of the Dolphin – Opening keynote
Edward Screven – Chief Corporate Architect of Oracle provided the opening keynote at the 2010 MySQL Users Conference . Overall I was disappointed. The first half was more an Oracle Sales pitch, we had some product announcements, we had some 5.
Read moreNew linux desktop configuration
My purchase yesterday was a HP Pavilion p6340f Desktop PC with the following specs. Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 2.66GHz Processor 4MB L2 Cache, 1333MHz FSB 8GB PC3-8500 DDR3 SDRAM (4 x 2GB) 1TB Serial ATA Hard Drive Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X4500 with 32MB Integrated shared graphics memory Lightscribe SuperMulti DVD±R/RW with Double Layer 10/100/1000 Base-T Network interface Wireless LAN 802.
Read moreUpgrading my Google G1 dev phone to Android 1.6
To update your Google G1 phone (mine is an Android developer unlocked phone) to Android 1.6 (Donut), I did the following. Download and unpack the Android SDK for Mac OS X from http://developer.
Read moreGetting started with Cassandra
With the motivation from today’s public news on Twitter’s move from MySQL to Cassandra , my own skills desire following in-depth discussions at last November’s Open SQL Camp to consider Cassandra and yesterday’s discussion with a new client on persistent key-value store products, today I download installed and configured for the first time.
Read moreWhat’s your MySQL version?
I’ve heard that the mechanic’s wife always has a car that needs repair or tuneup, the painter’s wife always had walls of peeling paint, you get the picture. What about MySQL DBA’s and their own databases?
Read moreMigrating MySQL latin1 to utf8 – Character Set Options
Continuing on from preparation in our MySQL latin1 to utf8 migration let us first understand where MySQL uses character sets. MySQL defines the character set at 4 different levels for the structure of data.
Read moreChecked your MySQL recovery process recently?
I sound like a broken record with every client when I talk to about the resilience of their production environments. It’s very simple in theory, however in practice many organizations fail.
Read moreMigrating MySQL latin1 to utf8 – Preparation
This article is Part 1 of a series of articles regarding MySQL character set conversion. Be sure to also check out character set options and the process for more information.
Read moreBeyond MySQL GA: patches, storage engines, forks, and pre-releases – FOSDEM 2010
Kristian Nielsen presented “Beyond MySQL GA: patches, storage engines, forks, and pre-releases”. This included a history of current products: Google Patches (5.0 & 5.1) included improvements in : statistics/monitoring lock contention binlog malloc() filesorts innodb I/O and wait statistics SHOW …STATISTICS statements smp scalability I/O scalability semisync replication many more Percona Patches (5.
Read more10x Performance Improvements in MySQL – A Case Study
The slides for my presentation at FOSDEM 2010 are now available online at slideshare . In this presentation I describe a successful client implementation with the result of 10x performance improvements.
Read moreBe sure to know your my.cnf [sections]
The MySQL configuration file, e.g. /etc/my.cnf has a number of different section headings including [mysql], [mysqld], [mysqld_safe]. It is important that you ensure you put the right variables into the right section.
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