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
The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.0.0! This is an alpha release.
MariaDB 10.0 is the current development version of MariaDB. It is built on the MariaDB 5.5 series with backported features from MySQL 5.6 and entirely new features not found anywhere else. See “Explanation on MariaDB 10.0″ and “What comes in between MariaDB now and MySQL 5.6?” for more information on why we’re calling this series “MariaDB 10.0″.
This is the first 10.0-based release, and we are releasing it now to get it into the hands of any who might want to test it. Not all features planned for the MariaDB 10.0 series are …
[Read more]This week we continue part 3 of the Operations Report Card and how it relates to database administration. This week we talk about the section on "Operational Practices", and it covers how operations are run. In Ear Candy we present different tools for finding a machine's external IP address, and in At the Movies we present a video about MySQL Security from when Sheeri was touring Latin America in July.
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noted that the OurSQL blog/podcast was among the Top MySQL Blogs You Should Be …
This week, we go through the "Modern Team Practices" part of the Operations Report Card, and how it applies to DBAs.
Events
Oracle's "Scale with MySQL" seminars:
Scale with MySQL Seminar, London, Tuesday 30
October
Bucharest Romania, Tuesday 13 November
Madrid, Tuesday 27 November
This is part one of a series where we will explore the Operations Report Card and explain how it applies to DBAs. Listen and grade your own organization, this is a great opportunity to get some new ideas on how to organize your department and make your job more efficient and streamlined.
News
Alaska Airlines system crash
Events
Oracle's "Scale with MySQL" seminars:
Scale with MySQL Seminar, London, Tuesday 30
October
Last Summer I implemented a non-blocking client API in MariaDB, and it was included in the MariaDB 5.5 release. But somehow I never got around to announcing it.
However, that did not prevent Brian White from noticing it, and using it to implement a new mysql binding for node.js called mariasql.
Now, node.js is a single-threaded, event-driven framework for web application sever development. In such frameworks, all I/O is done non-blocking or asynchronously, as are all other actions that may need to wait for external events. There is a single event loop which uses a poll() or similar system call to wait for any pending I/O or other event to complete, and then dispatches the appropriate event handler(s). Such frameworks are often used instead of a multi-threaded …
[Read more]In June, I told about the consolidation of the MariaDB project tools. The final piece of this consolidation, to report bugs in the MariaDB project tracking tool called JIRA has now been finalized.
Bug reporting stays open! JIRA is open to anyone. The bug reports are publicly available, even without logging in and as a bonus it will be easier to follow what is going on in the project since you don’t have to jump between several tools to get the complete picture.
All bugs that existed in Launchpad have been migrated to JIRA. To find a bug that was originally reported on Launchpad use the following approaches:
The first day of the first MySQL Connect
conference is done. It's been a busy day! Many
attendees are interested in the new MySQL Server 5.6 release, but
of course MySQL Cluster is the main draw here. After a
session from Oracle on the new features in 7.2, and early access
features in 7.3, I attended Santo Leto's
MySQL Cluster 'hands on lab'. Despite having started more
clusters than most, it felt like a new and exciting experience
installing and running my cluster alongside everyone else.
The lab machines had some networking issues, but with Santo's
help we seamlessly failed-over to some downloads he'd prepared
earlier - very professional!
Afterwards it was my turn to talk on the subject of MySQL Cluster
performance. The quality of the questions was impressive -
there seems to be a very capable crowd in San Francisco this …
We’re pleased to announce the first preview version of the Cassandra Storage Engine!
The Cassandra Storage Engine (SE) allows access to Cassandra databases from MariaDB/MySQL, and to provide data integration between the SQL and NoSQL worlds.
Have you ever needed to
With Cassandra SE, this is easily possible. Cassandra SE makes Cassandra’s column families appear as MariaDB/MySQL tables that you can insert to, update, and select from. You can perform joins on Cassandra data, or againist data in Cassandra and data in MariaDB.
Today we’re releasing a source tarball, as well as a binary tarball package …
[Read more]Infor announced this week, that they will provide open source database alternatives to some of their products. MariaDB has been chosen, tested, and certified by Infor to be the open source database of choice (together with MySQL) for the Infor LN and ION products. Infor LN is Infor’s flagship ERP and is sometimes better known by its former name, Baan. It has 25 years of manufacturing know-how built into it and is used by more than 5,000 companies worldwide in a wide range of industries. These include automotive, industrial equipment and machinery, high tech and electronics, and aerospace and defense. This is a big stamp of approval that even the most critical systems can be run on MariaDB.
In other news, there are currently several really interesting paths coming together into some important milestones. The rest of this post …
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