I distinctly remember creating and committing this code... and it has largely not changed. Yet, it seems that my name was scrubbed from its history.

$ bzr blame -q include/mysql/plugin_audit.h | grep antony | wc -l

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Sad-face.

=-(

From time to time we have to work with live environments and production databases. For some of us this is day-to-day job. And most of the time cost of a mistake is way higher than expected improvement especially on the databases. Because issue on the database side will affect everything else.

I heard enough war stories about ruined productions and can imagine well enough speed of DROP DATABASE command replicating across the cluster. So I’m scared to make changes in production. The more loss expected if things go wrong the more I’m going to be scared planning every change. But I still love to make improvements so the only question is how to make them safer.

This post is not intended to be a guide or best practices on how to avoid issues at all, it’s more invitation to discussion that started between me and @randomsurfer in twitter on how to avoid production failures. …

Brian Aker gives the “zinger” lightning talk about the newly announced “Drizzle”. This short (under 8 minutes) video captures Aker’s highlights of why he started the Drizzle project and how Drizzle is different from MySQL — both in what has been removed from MySQL and what features Drizzle can accomodate.

Play the video directly in your browser at http://technocation.org/node/576/play or download the 116 Mb file at http://technocation.org/node/576/download.

Brian Aker gives the “zinger” lightning talk about the newly announced “Drizzle”. This short (under 8 minutes) video captures Aker’s highlights of why he started the Drizzle project and how Drizzle is different from MySQL — both in what has been removed from MySQL and what features Drizzle can accomodate.

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When you first start out as a freelancer, your network is small. Without a steady stream of projects, the tendency is to reach for whatever you can find. Head shops & agencies build a brand, and ongoing relationships with firms. However a project with a middleman is a relationship with him or her, not the client directly. You lose control of a few very key things, such as fees, testimonials and payment terms.

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In the thirty-second minute of a YouTube video featuring Oracle CEO Larry Ellison you can hear him say clearly "we compete against Microsoft SQL Server ... we never compete against MySQL".

The important thing is that he says "Microsoft SEQUEL Server" the way Microsoft people say it, but he says "My-ESS-CUE-ELL" the way the MySQL Reference Manual says is "official" pronunciation (for English). That is, for product names Mr Ellison respects the way the product makers say it. That settles that, but what about the word SQL in general?

Although SEQUEL was the earlier name, there are no English words where the letter Q alone is pronounced KW. So this can't be …

Today is Tutorial Day at MySQL Connect 2013 and yesterday was a blur. The Replication Road Map session started my day and it covered the long term development goals for MySQL Replication as well as more information on the Fabric sharding tool. Joro presented an amazing session on new security features along with some great tips for DBAs. Sadly I had to miss the other sessions as there was a meeting of the MySQL Storage Engine Partners (thanks to all the attendees) and the Oracle User Groups. Like many of you, I will be spending time going through presentations online to catch up on the session I missed.

And please let us have any feedback on MySQL Connect 2013 that you may have as we are already looking at the 2014 show.

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MySQL Fabric Presentation

MySQL 5.7 Fabric: Introduction to High Availability and Sharding from Ulf Wendel

Excellent presentation by Ulf Wendel 

Hi Sanjay

Thanks for the response.(It's a bit late but I know you would be busy). I understood the problem but How is it possible for multiple write threads while we backup without SBT (I mean, to disk)? When MEB can write in multiple threads to a folder on disk, I want to explore the possibility/hack to make it work with tape also? at least with the help of some buffering at the machine which has tape library installed.