Some exciting news coming from 10Gen, the company behind MongoDB. It announced today that Seqouia is investing $6.5M in it's high performance, document-oriented (BSON), key-value based NoSQL solution that supports automatic sharding and dynamic queries. Foursquare, Disqus, Etsy, Sourceforge, eVite, EventBrite and New York Times are all users of 10Gen. The features this young NoSQL …

By this definition, when someone who doesn't work at the MySQL project distributes a package that is based on MySQL code but differs …

Recently am part of Zynga‘s database team as I was pretty much impressed with company’s database usage. As everyone knows how popular Zynga games like Farmville, Cafe World, Mafia Wars,[...]

Blue Gecko works with clients who run many different operating systems.  Our preference generally is RedHat Enterprise Linux or CentOS, but we have customers who range far and wide from there including Solaris, Windows, SuSE, and (more and more) Debian and Ubuntu.

As we’ve become more familiar with Debian and Ubuntu we have found that those customers who use the MySQL packages that are distributed with these OSs have a few quirks to be aware of.

Baron Schwartz posted a long description of one of these, the challenge with /etc/mysql/debian-start at the MySQL Performance Blog.  In the short version, if this script isn’t disabled, it will run a mysqlcheck each time /etc/init.d/mysql start is invoked.  This has been changed in later versions of Debian, but legacy systems may still …

Here you find information about writing RIGHT JOINs (also referred to as RIGHT OUTER JOINs). This introduction into right joins includes a detailed description, syntax information and right outer join example statements. The Venn diagram on the left represents a result set that a statement with a right join produces. Please refer to the syntax examples below for an example. Links to additional information resources can be found at the end of this article.

Right Join syntax

First of all, some syntax examples for the impatient:

-- right join with USING-clause
SELECT *
FROM <leftTable> RIGHT JOIN <rightTable>
USING(id)

-- right join with ON-clause
SELECT *
FROM <leftTable> a RIGHT JOIN <rightTable> b …

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Registrations received today will be eligible for the discount. Starting next week, all registrations are regular price.

Take a look at the course info on our web site. Unsurprisingly, you’ll also find the registration link just there.

I’ll be teaching this class myself, and am very much looking forward to it. See you in Brisbane!

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I only recently found out about GigaOm's upcoming Net:Work conference.  It's held December 9 at UCSF Mission Bay conference center.  While the name of the conference is a bit ambiguous, the actual area of focus is very clear: how will we collaborate in the 21st century?  

The impact of smartphones, tablet computing, social networks, Software-as-a-Service and Cloud computing is just starting.  As a result, I think there are tremendous opportunities for startup companies to disrupt existing markets with more modern, lightweight applications that foster collaboration inside the company as well as with partners, vendors, consultants and customers.  

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I’d like to wish Henrik Ingo well now that he has publicly announced his resignation from Monty Program. Henrik, I especially wish you all the best with the new member of your family.

I know you put a lot of effort into your presentation to the Monty Program board regarding transfer of trademark ownership, and you know (and I do not mind saying externally) that I supported transfer to a non-profit designed for such purposes. Our informal, non-inclusive vote in Istanbul aside, I think the company as a whole should put a lot of thought into such matters. I would always hope the board would do the same.

And it is my understanding that this is what is happening. Not that the board made a final decision to maintain trademark ownership, but that they decided more research and …

I’d like to wish Henrik Ingo well now that he has publicly announced his resignation from Monty Program. Henrik, I especially wish you all the best with the new member of your family.

I know you put a lot of effort into your presentation to the Monty Program board regarding transfer of trademark ownership, and you know (and I do not mind saying externally) that I supported transfer to a non-profit designed for such purposes. Our informal, non-inclusive vote in Istanbul aside, I think the company as a whole should put a lot of thought into such matters. I would always hope the board would do the same.

And it is my understanding that this is what is happening. Not that the board made a final decision to maintain trademark ownership, but that they decided more research and …

This is the first post in an attempt to write about how to get along with MySQL on Windows. Before I start, I want to stress that the focus here is seasoned Windows users getting started with MySQL. As for MySQL, I am prett much Operating System agnostic, having used Linux / Unix for some 25 - 30 years ( started using Unix as of Version 6. That's OLD). But I have also been a Windows user and developer since Windows 3.0 days.

Also, when I say I'm a Windows developer, let me tell you where I come from. I come from learning Win16 in C. Hardcoded message loops and message handlers and that kind of stuff. And that is how I still develop on Windows, but these days with Win32 / Win64 and exposing more Windows APIs. So I am no C# or .NET expert by any means.

So, you are ready to get started with MySQL on Windows? OK, first you should download it, possibly from here: …