New 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.

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How to find MySQL developers?

Brian wrote recently Where did all of the MySQL Developers Go? , while over in Drizzle land they have been accepted for the Google Summer of code along with many other open source projects.

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Understanding Drizzle user authentication options – Part 2

A key differentiator in Drizzle from it’s original MySQL roots is user based authentication. Gone is the host/user and schema/table/column model that was stored in the MyISAM based mysql.user table.

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Understanding Drizzle user authentication options – Part 1

A key differentiator in Drizzle from it’s original MySQL roots is user based authentication. Gone is the host/user and schema/table/column model that was stored in the MyISAM based mysql.user table.

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Gearman examples under Mac OS X

Today I listened in on the O’Reilly webcast Introduction to Gearman by Eric Day of Rackspace. I thought I would follow through on the machine at hand; a Mac with OS X 10.

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Using ext4 for MySQL

This week with a client I saw ext4 used for the first time on a production MySQL system which was running Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) . I observe today while installing 9.

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Drizzle’s Data Dictionary and Global Status

With the recent news by Brian about the Data Dictionary in Drizzle replacing the INFORMATION_SCHEMA, I was looking into the server status variables (aka INFORMATION_SCHEMA.GLOBAL_STATUS) and I came across an interesting discovery.

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Upgrading 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.

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How do I identify the MySQL my.cnf file?

If you are unfamiliar in administrating MySQL, the current MySQL configuration file generally found is named my.cnf (my.ini on windows). Where is that file. If only that question was easy to answer!

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Don’t Assume – Per Session Buffers

MySQL has a number of global buffers, i.e. your SGA. There are also a number of per session/thread buffers that combined with other memory usage constitutes an unbounded PGA. One of the most common errors in mis-configured MySQL environments is the setting of the 4 primary per session buffers thinking they are global buffers.

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Free advice on your my.cnf

Today, while on IRC in #pentaho I came across a discussion and a published my.cnf. In this configuration I found some grossly incorrect values for per session buffers (see below).

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MySQL is crashing, what do I do?

Let me start by saying the majority of environments never experience problems of MySQL crashing. I have seen production environments up for years. On my own server I have seen 575 days of MySQL uptime and the problem was hardware, not MySQL.

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Advanced reporting options for MySQL

I’m seeking help from the MySQL community for what tools are used today to generate complex reports for enterprise applications that use MySQL. In an Oracle world, you have Oracle Report Writer , in Microsoft Crystal Reports .

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Migrating MySQL latin1 to utf8 – The process

Having covered the preparation and character set options of performing a latin1 to utf8 MySQL migration, just how do you perform the migration correctly. Example Case Just to recap, we have the following example table and data.

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