Oracle Technology Network Developer Day MySQL – Washington will be held Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at the Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel (999 Ninth Street NW Washington, DC 20001). And it is FREE!
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Boy, the conference planners here must have some pull in high places, because they got a 5.9 earthquake to help them with their “Shake IT Up” slogan for Innovation Nation and GOSCON. I was in the upstairs conference hall, and it was pretty dramatic. I’ve never seen/felt/experienced anything quite like that before. All the walls were twisting and shimmying in different directions, and fixtures fell out of the ceiling. Just little ones — but I decided not to rush to the exit, as I was in a huge room and others were already rushing. I figured the odds of getting hurt in the rush were more than the odds of the building collapsing. But I did look upwards to see if I was going to get bonked on the head by a falling light fixture. High ceiling; time enough to dodge if I was lucky.
I met Keith Larson, Craig Sylvester, and several others whose names I’ll get wrong or misspell in the expo hall at the Oracle MySQL booth. I’m staying …
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I’m headed to NoSQL Now! in San Jose this week. I’ll be speaking on Thursday morning about our NoSQL APIs for MyQSL Cluster — memcached, ClusterJ, and mod_ndb. Our upcoming MySQL Cluster release introduces a Memcache API with near-native NDB performance, and, from the SQL side, includes major algorithmic changes to the MySQL optimizer so that, at long last, MySQL Cluster handles multi-way joins by “bringing the query to the data.”
It’s been a long, long road from the very first MySQL Cluster releases in 2004 to this point — but this release really brings me back to the excitement I remember when I first heard of MySQL Cluster, with its combination of low-level (NDBAPI) and high-level (SQL) access to the same distributed database. In 2004, the NDBAPI was hard to use, the SQL access turned out to have severe limitations, and managing the database was more …
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I'm headed to NoSQL Now! in San Jose this week. I'll be speaking
on Thursday morning about our NoSQL APIs for MyQSL Cluster --
memcached, ClusterJ, and mod_ndb. Our upcoming MySQL Cluster
release introduces a Memcache API with near-native NDB
performance, and, from the SQL side, includes major algorithmic
changes to the MySQL optimizer so that, at long last, MySQL
Cluster handles multi-way joins by "bringing the query to the
data."
It's been a long, long road from the very first MySQL Cluster
releases in 2004 to this point -- but this release really brings
me back to the excitement I remember when I first heard of MySQL
Cluster, with its combination of low-level (NDBAPI) and
high-level (SQL) access to the same distributed database. In
2004, the NDBAPI was hard to use, the SQL access turned out to
have severe limitations, and managing the database was more …
Aug
23
2011
In this article I describe how to setup the postfix Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) with spampd as a before-queue content filter on Debian Squeeze
Purpose
This document describes how to set up a postfix with spampd on Debian Linux Squeeze 6.0.x.
list of references
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The Goscon event was cut short today due to the earthquake. The
5.9 quake was felt as we had the MySQL team
was supporting the booth. Nothing like a little more excitement
to awaken the show floor.
All was not lost, it was good to see and talk with Baron Schwartz
from Percona.
The MySQL Developer Days are still planned for
tomorrow .
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Engine Yard acquires Orchestra. Red Hat considers NoSQL move. And more.
# Engine Yard announced a definitive agreement to acquire Orchestra, bringing PHP expertise to the Engine Yard platform.
# Red Hat’s CEO indicated the company is interested in a NoSQL or Hadoop acquisition.
# Gluster announced Apache Hadoop compatibility in the next GlusterFS release.
# Microsoft signed an agreement with China Standard Software Co (CS2C) to …
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InternetNews.com yesterday published an article based on an interview with Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst asking the question “Is Red Hat Interested in the Database Market?”
In truth there was no real need to ask the question, as Whitehurst’s comments made it pretty clear that Red Hat is interested in the database market, and specifically the NoSQL database market.
“When I say I don’t want to be a database company, I’m saying that I don’t want to be a SQL database company,” Whitehurst said.
In case the implications of that statement were not entirely clear, he later added:
“But we would be very interested in a NoSQL type database or Hadoop type thing,” Whitehurst said. “Those are interesting as they represent net new.”
The article adds that Whitehurst would not …
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We regularly receive questions from our user community with
regards to which AMIs to use when deploying database clusters on
Amazon EC2.
As part of our ongoing development work on the Severalnines Configurator and ClusterControl, we have recently done some testing
on deploying MySQL Cluster on EC2 using Severalnines on three
different AMIs. We thought we should share the results of these
tests, hence the reason for this week's blog!
If you would like to test such a deployment yourself, feel free
to use the parameters and guidelines below to do so. You can also
check out these new videos to see Severalnines technology in …
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