This week, we continue our series going through the Operations Report Card as it applies to database administrators. This week in Ear Candy, we talk about a hidden client value for max_allowed_packet (separate from the session variable). In At the Movies, we present Karen Tegan Padir of Enterprise DB presenting The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same.
Events
Oracle's "Scale with MySQL" seminars:
Madrid, Tuesday 27 November
MySQL is the world’s most popular open-source database, and powers websites and applications of numerous leading and fast-growing organizations. In this streamed video from a MySQL community event in Barcelona, we cover everything you need to know to successfully scale out and replicate your MySQL databases and make your applications highly available.
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Oracle’s MySQL OEM Tech Tour - Miami
:
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Oracle Office
6505 Blue Lagoon Dr., Suite 400
Miami, FL 33126 Rm: DEMO-4004
Embedding MySQL:
Higher Application Performance and Streamlined Development with
MySQL Embedded
Join us and get tips directly from the MySQL technical experts on
how to better develop, integrate, secure, and tune MySQL for your
application.
MySQL is not only the most popular open source database for Web
applications, it's also a popular embedded database relied on by
over 3,000 ISVs and technology providers around the world such as
Adobe, Dell, Sage and Symantec. Whether for distributed
on-premise applications …
MySQL for Excel is one of the newest products of the MySQL on Windows group broadening the way MySQL data can be accessed in an easy and friendly way from within MS Excel. This is the first blog post of a small series aimed to present the current features of this great product and to get feedback from users about ideas for enhancements.
Parallel Universe is now available as part of Linux OS images at
Amazon Web Services.
Amazon Web Services is a scalable cloud service provider at
http://aws.amazon.com .
Launch Instance -> Classic Wizard -> Community AMIs -> type in “parallel universe” (All Images)
Host OS:
Amazon Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Ubuntu Server
Cluster Compute Amazon Linux
Cluster GPU Amazon Linux
Cluster Instances SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Cluster Instances Ubuntu Server
With MySQL 5.6.8 RC available more and more people will start to
test installs and upgrades. This often comes up for some
people so I hope this helps some.
If you seeing the error "The server quit without updating PID
file" then obviously something recently changed on your
environment.
So lets take it step by step:
# /etc/init.d/mysql start
Starting MySQL..The server quit without updating the PID file
(/var/lib/mysql/localhost.localdomain.pid).
While yes people do say just move the my.cnf file and restart the
database to by pass this error... You need to understand why. Why
would moving the my.cnf allow mysql to start? Check the error
logs that is how and why you will be able to fix it and get it
restarted.
Issue 1:
"Fatal error: Can't open and …
In my three previous MongoDB blogs I wrote about our implementation of Fractal Tree(R) indexes on MongoDB, showing a 10x insertion performance increase, a 268x query performance increase, and a comparison of covered indexes and clustered indexes. These benchmarks show the difference that rich and efficient indexing can make to your MongoDB workload.
Given the high performance of Fractal Tree Indexes, we’ve created a new benchmark to test our ability to handle indexing large …
[Read more]If you are considering using MySQL and/or MySQL Cluster as the embedded database solution for your application, you should join us for today's webcast where we will discuss how you can cut costs, add flexibility and benefit from new performance and scalability enhancements that are now available in MySQL 5.6 and MySQL Cluster 7.2. We will cover the top 10 reasons that make MySQL and MySQL Cluster the best solutions for embedding in both shrink wrapped and SaaS provided applications, how industry leaders leverage MySQL products and how you can get started with the latest innovations and support offerings across the MySQL product line.
You can learn more and reserve your seat here.
As always, thanks for your support of MySQL!
Imagine that Microsoft and Apple got into a big
fight for the market some 15 years ago and that Apple lost. Big
time. Apple went down completely and there was nothing left. And
as an IT expert, you were called in to look at what remained,
what could be salvaged and what was just a waste of everyones
time and money.
If you had seen the iPhone back then what would you have
said? (I'm not so sure myself, chances are I would have been
terribly negative). Note that there would have been no AppStore,
no HTML5 sites, none of that neat stuff.
Or to make a different analogy: Was VHS better than
BetaMax? Well, that depends on who you ask: The end consumer
wanting to rent a movie or the techie looking at the
specifications of the technology in question.
Just after the second world …
