Ein auf Open Source spezialisierter deutscher Freelance-Journalist, Ludger Schmitz, hat in einem Blog-Eintrag auf Enterprise CIO Forum von IDG Deutschland seine tiefe Enttäuschung über Oracle und dessen Behandlung von MySQL zum Ausdruck gebracht. Anlass waren die Ergebnisse einer Anwenderbefragung (hier und hier), welche Matthew Aslett von der Abteilung Commercial Adoption of Open Source (CAOS) beim Marktanalysten …

Many thanks sharing this information. It helps a lot for out ongoing decision for Mysql replication.

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This week, Sheeri talks about virtualization with Tim Hall during the Latin America Oracle Technology Network Tour. Earcandy is MySQL Sandbox and at the movies Giuseppe Maxia demos MySQL Sandbox during the 2011 MySQL Users Conference.

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I have taken upon a new challenge at REA group as a line manager for two site performance engineers and it has caused me to reflect on my time at REA.

Prior to joining REA (known for realestate.com.au - Australians 2nd highest traffic website), I worked for  Rackspace as a Level 3 support engineer whilst on a working holiday in London. I took it upon myself to up-skill on MySQL as most customer calls were related to site performance of a LAMP configuration and almost always the problems were MySQL database related. Poor indexing, poor data structures poor everything!

Taking the web hosting experience and particularly the MySQL experience to REA was a great fit as there were many faults with the architecture design and configuration. Then along Marcus Barczak and others and the leadership of James Wilson we executed an operational uplift of infrastructure operations to build a really rockin' foundation to …

James, can you elaborate? I don’t understand your NBD comment (did you mean NDB?).

How does sharding change the latency issue? If 11 INSERTs a second is acceptable throughput, you would be not have reached the scale where you need to shard anything.

I have taken upon a new challenge at REA group as a line manager for two site performance engineers and it has caused me to reflect on my time at REA.

Prior to joining REA (known for realestate.com.au - Australians 2nd highest traffic website), I worked for  Rackspace as a Level 3 support engineer whilst on a working holiday in London. I took it upon myself to up-skill on MySQL as most customer calls were related to site performance of a LAMP configuration and almost always the problems were MySQL database related. Poor indexing, poor data structures poor everything!

Taking the web hosting experience and particularly the MySQL experience to REA was a great fit as there were many faults with the architecture design and configuration. Then along Marcus Barczak and others and the leadership of James Wilson we executed an operational uplift of infrastructure operations to build a really rockin' foundation to …

Just for the pure insane fun of it, I accepted the challenge of “what can you do with the text format of the schedule?” for BarCampMel. I’m a database guy, so I wanted to load it into a database (which would be Drizzle), and I wanted it to be easy to keep it up to date (this is an unconference after all).

So… the text file itself isn’t in any standard format, so I’d have to parse it. I’m lazy and didn’t want to leave the comfort of the database. Luckily, inside Drizzle, we have a js plugin that lets you execute arbitrary JavaScript. Parsing solved. I needed to get the program and luckily we have the http_functions plugin that uses libcurl to allow us to perform HTTP GET requests. I also wanted it in a table so I could query it when not online, so I needed to load the data. Luckily, in Drizzle we have the built in EXECUTE functionality, so I could just use the JavaScript to parse the response from the HTTP GET request and …