As many of you may know the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship is just around the corner1. For the occasion I developed a web-based betting game to introduce a little bit of competition between me and my friends as well as make the Championships even more exciting. But then I thought “Hey, why not to do this for a bigger community as well”? So dear MySQLers, I invite you to join the special edition of my game here at dba square!

The game is available at http://www.dbasquare.com/euro2012/ or you can simply get there from the blog’s main menu at the top of each page.

We are offering you:

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I had to install Percona XtraDB Cluster, I think for the first time since it was announced stable. I remembered many problems I faced with beta releases, which was understandable given they were only for a preview, but this time I hoped for significant improvements.

I have to say I am generally quite sensitive about simple problems that could/should be easily discovered and corrected. Well, it didn’t take five minutes to see a few of such problems. These minutes I spent installing the database binaries from Percona Yum repository. It turned out that was enough to see a lot of errors for no reason. Not a good thing.

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  Installing : 1:Percona-XtraDB-Cluster-server-5.5.23-23.5.333.rhel6.x86_64         5/5
ls: cannot access /var/lib/mysql/*.err: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /var/lib/mysql/*.err: No such file or directory