MySQL 6.0

If you were quick you may have noticed at the MySQL Conference 2007 keynote Welcome and State of MySQL AB talk this morning, Robin Schumacher in his quick demo of MySQL Monitoring & Advisory Service showed the MySQL Network Enterprise Dashboard, you would have noticed the MySQL Version 6.

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Opening Keynote at MySQL Conf

It’s an early start this morning at 8:20am at MySQL Conference 2007 with CEO Mårten Mickos keynote talk Welcome and State of MySQL AB. His spirit is evident with his opening slide “The Participatory & Disruptive spirit of the Dolphin.

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MYSQL Conference – Scaling and High Availablilty Architectures Tutorial

My first tutorial today at MySQL Conference 2007 is Scaling and High Availablilty Architectures by Jeremy Cole and Eric Bergen of Proven Scaling. Basic Tenets While not discussed, the premise is to Cache Everything.

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MySQL Conference & Expo

The MySQL Conference has started. It will be a long week, still yet to prepare my own presentation for tomorrow. Old friendships already renewed, plenty of faces to names already, and we have yet to hit the first session.

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SHOW PROFILE

I’ve been playing more with the SHOW PROFILE command available as part of MySQL Community 5.0.37. Thanks to the author Jeremy Cole. This command can provide some interesting insight into the workings of MySQL.

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Google’s worse nightmare

Today while waiting at the airport, I took a look at the news stand, and right there on the cover of Fast Company were two words Google, and Wikipedia. Given Wikipedia is a poster boy of MySQL it was an immediate purchase just to see what was being said.

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Get behind a new exciting site

As I write this blog I have over 90 draft blog posts. That’s 9-0. Why do I have so many posts? The main reason is I want to say something, and I’ve either not completed it, or researched it sufficiently to consider the entry complete.

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Google Maps for Personal Use

Just as I talked yesterday about Google Maps for Traffic Updates , today Google Maps released a new feature today called My Maps. I’ve just started using it, my first map is incomplete but you can see the workings at Travel Locations

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MySQL LOAD DATA Trick

I leaned a new trick today with LOAD DATA INFILE . I’m migrating some data from an external source, and the Date Format is not the MySQL required YYYY-MM-DD, it was DD-MMM-YY.

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Google Maps for Traffic Updates

Saw a new button on Google Maps today called Traffic. Seems they are highlighting traffic congestion. Some real life examples. San Francisco New York . Below is a screen print I took today of the SF area.

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T60 Configuration

This is a long story, of the absolute nightmare I have had with this lemon. I wish I could send it back! I got my new Lenovo T60 from MySQL.

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Top 10 Things for IT Professionals

These IT related lists are really quite accurate. I sound like a broken record sometimes when I repeat these things. The articles provides very good detailed descriptions, I’ve included the bullet points just to temp you to read more.

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That missing INNODB STATUS

On Thursday I saw something I’d not seen before. An Empty Innodb Status. Now given the amount of output normally shown it was certainly a first. And it looked like:

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Watching Replication in action

For all those instant GUI people out there, there is an easy way to watch the present status of your MySQL Slaves using the watch command. $ watch -n 1 -d "

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