Those who are familiar with me know I've a dream.
5 years ago I decided to leave a systems
integrator where I was doing great. Why? I wanted to be in a
company with the same growth prospects that Oracle had in the
80s. I dreamed to be in the Oracle of 30 years
ago and, as time travel wasn't affordable, I decided to join
MySQL AB to help expand the business in Europe, the Middle East
and Africa.
A few years later my dream came true, but in a slightly different
sense. Sun acquired MySQL and was later swallowed by Oracle giving me the
opportunity to join the company I wished I could have helped
build.
Oracle is an amazing …
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Apr
28
2013
No need to say that as many others I have enjoy this conference a lot.
For me was also a personal success because I was finally able to have my company sponsoring the event and bring new members of my team to the conference as speakers, obviously all their merit, but I was happy as responsible of the MySQL cluster in Pythian knowing how much have cost to them to be there.
We also had a lot of people at the community dinner, last head count I did was over 120 people. In this regard I have to clarify some misunderstanding and confusion we had there.
Pedro’s requests to us to have the last head count by Tuesday morning, given that I have closed the count from the comments in the web-site and from the emails around noon. The number I pass to Pedro’s base on that was of 70-80 people, but we had additional people registering after that time and also last moment show, given that we …
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Apr
28
2013
As Stewart mentioned in in post where-are-they-now-mysql-storage-engines : “Federated It’s still there… but is effectively unmaintained and dead. There’s even FederatedX in MariaDB which is an improvement, but still, the MySQL server really doesn’t lend itself kindly to this type of engine… it’s always been an oddity only suitable for very specific tasks.”
The CONNECT [...]
Apr
28
2013
April 26, 2013 By Severalnines
This post shows you how to move from a single instance Drupal/MySQL to a multi-server environment. A well designed multi-server deployment not only allows Drupal to scale, but will also enhance redundancy by removing single points of failure. Components used are Apache, PHP, csync2, lsyncd, Keepalived, HAproxy, MySQL Galera Cluster and ClusterControl.
Apr
27
2013
Together with Sergei Petrunia, we talked about MariaDB Cassandra Interoperability. Sergei has done wonderful work here and I plan to showcase more Cassandra integration going forward. It’s worth noting that Elena came up with the benchmarks for this talk as well.
MariaDB Cassandra Interoperability from Colin Charles
Later, I gave a talk on MHA. Competing in a timeslot with Team …
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Apr
26
2013
Big news at Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo this week, Tokutek open sourced TokuDB thus making my previous post Where are they now: MySQL Storage Engines out of date in just a few days.
In this case, I really don’t mind. It’s rather exciting that they’ve gone ahead and done this – and it’s not just a code drop: https://github.com/Tokutek/ft-engine is where things are at, and recent commits were 2hrs and 18hrs ago which means that this is being maintained. This is certainly a good way to grow a developer community.
While being a MySQL engine is really interesting, the MongoDB integration is certainly something to watch – and may be …
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Apr
26
2013
The MySQL Windows Experience Team is proud to announce the release of MySQL for Excel version 1.1.1 GA, the latest addition to the MySQL Installer for Windows.
MySQL for Excel enables you to directly work with a MySQL database from within Microsoft Excel so you can easily do tasks such as:
- Importing MySQL Data into Excel
- Exporting Excel data directly into MySQL to a new or existing table
- Editing MySQL data directly within Excel
Version 1.1.1 is a maintenance release containing a handful of bug fixes.
You can download it from our official Downloads page at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/installer/.
Apr
26
2013
This week we talk to Giuseppe Maxia about MySQL Sandbox. Ear Candy is about table_open_cache, Open_tables and Opened_tables, and At the Movies features MariaDB.
MySQL Sandbox
MySQL
Sandbox
Examples:
MariaDB slave of a master:
make sandbox mysql-tarball --master
make sandbox mariadb-tarball --slaveof master-port=foo
Exporting:
./my sqldump instancename
Remote mysql sandbox deploy:
deploy remote sandboxes -m MySQLVer -l
list,of,servers
Apr
26
2013
I actively maintain virtual test instances for my writing and teaching on Windows 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, and Solaris. Perl on Windows is always interesting. I use ActivePerl on Windows 7 rather than Strawberry Perl, and it was interesting to see this note after I upgraded to the most current Community Edition of ActivePerl (5.16.3).
I thought it might be kind to post ActiveState’s Release Note because you should really read it before you try to install ActivePerl on Windows 7/8. Just make sure you’ve removed any earlier version of ActivePerl before trying the install. That’s what I did, and surprise, there weren’t any problems.
While the installation doesn’t tell you that you need to restart the Windows 7 operating system, you do. If you don’t restart Windows 7 after the ActivePerl install, you’ll get the following error message:
install_driver(mysql) failed: … |