The wild and crazy guys over at S&T Geotronics, James Sanderson and Marc Tessier, have decided to go full tilt with a Kickstarter version of their DIY Open Enigma Project.  For those who missed the fanfare last year, they were featured on Instructables showing how to build an Arduino-based encryption machine that works exactly like a WWII era Enigma.  You know, the thing that Alan friggin' Turing and his team at …

Often I would need to work on customer servers where MySQL Utilities would be a really good fit for the tools I need. However, I would not want to mess around with the customer servers just to have it running so I would have the tools built and sandboxed on its own directory where I can cleanup later. Here’s how:

cd ~
wget http://mysql.mirrors.hoobly.com/Downloads/MySQLGUITools/mysql-utilities-1.4.1.tar.gz
tar xzf mysql-utilities-1.4.1.tar.gz
cd mysql-utilities-1.4.1
python setup.py build
python setup.py install --root=/home/revin/mysql-utilities-1.4.1
export PYTHONPATH=.:/home/revin/mysql-utilities-1.4.1/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages
/home/revin/mysql-utilities-1.4.1/usr/bin/mysqlfrm --help

Your source of the package and install directory may vary – enjoy!

In teaching, I had a problem because my students have different base operating systems, like Windows 7, Windows 8, Linux, and Mac OS X. I needed a teaching and lecture platform that would let me teach it all (not to mention support their environments). That meant it had to virtualize any of the following with a portable device:

• Windows 7 or 8 hosting natively an Oracle Database 11g XE, 11g, or 12c and MySQL Database 5.6
• Windows 7 or 8 hosting a Fedora or Oracle Unbreakable Linux VM (3 or 4 GB) with Oracle Database 11g XE, 11g, or 12c and MySQL Database 5.6
• Mac OS X hosting a Fedora or Oracle Unbreakable Linux VM (3 or 4 GB) with Oracle Database 11g XE, 11g, or 12c and MySQL Database 5.6
• Ubuntu hosting a Fedora or Oracle Unbreakable Linux VM (3 or 4 GB) with Oracle Database 11g XE, 11g, or …

As many of you know, I’ve been working in the MySQL world for quite a while now. IN fact, it was nearly 10 years ago when I first started hacking on MySQL Cluster at MySQL AB.

Most recently, I was at Percona which was a wonderful journey where over my nearly three years there the company at least doubled in size, launched several new software products and greatly improved the quality and frequency of releases.

However the time has come for something completely different. The MySQL world is rather mature, the future of …

While installing Percona Server 5.5/5.6 on Ubuntu 13.04/13.10, I got some weird errors, which I never faced before. Errors were something like,

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libmysqlclient18_1%3a5.5.35-rel33.0-611.raring_amd64.deb (–unpack):
  libmysqlclient18:amd64 1:5.5.35-rel33.0-611.raring (Multi-Arch: no) is not co-installable with libmysqlclient18 which has multiple installed instances

shell>  sudo apt-get install percona-server-server-5.5
 Reading package lists... Done
 Building dependency tree
 Reading state information... Done
 The following extra packages will be installed:
 libdbd-mysql-perl libmysqlclient18 percona-server-client-5.5 percona-server-common-5.5
 Suggested packages:
 tinyca
 The following NEW packages will be installed:
 libdbd-mysql-perl libmysqlclient18 percona-server-client-5.5 percona-server-common-5.5 percona-server-server-5.5
 0 …

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Since MySQL Workbench 6.0 isn’t available for Fedora, Version 20, I’m having my students install it on their local Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. You can configure the /etc/sysconfig/iptables file to enable port 3306 after installing MySQL on Fedora.

You can open a port by adding the following line to the /etc/sysconfig/iptables file (Fedora’s instructions on editing iptables). The file won’t exist initially, but you can create it by running the following command as the root superuser or sudoer:

shell> service iptables save

You you can run the following commands as the root superuser, …

When looking back at 2013, one of the things that really stand out is what we’ve done with MySQL in Linux distros. At least it stands out to me, but for most people it’s probably the janitorial work that they never notice as long as everything keeps working perfectly. Although invisible to most, this is the important work that makes it possible for all Linux users to run MySQL.

Most distros are maintained by volunteers doing packaging work in their spare time, and we as software developers should be very grateful for all the work and effort they put into distributing our software (for free!). I know we at Oracle are!

We’ve had a distro-like project of our own in 2013. We have created our own repositories for various Linux distros (I hope to see more in the future), so that users that want the latest and greatest can get that even if their …

There is a good article over at Re-Code by ex-Microsoft VP Steven Sinofsky called "The Four Stages of Disruption".  It describes the evolution of products and markets through disruption, drawing from Sinofsky's own insights and also building on the work of Everett Rogers ("The Diffusion of Innovations") and Clayton Christensen ("The …

There is much more to write about all the work we do at Facebook with memory management efficiency on our systems, but there was this one detour investigation in the middle of 2012 that I had to revisit recently courtesy of Wikipedia.

There are lots of factors that make machines page out memory segments into disk, thus slowing everything down and locking software up – from file system cache pressure to runaway memory leaks to kernel drivers being greedy. But certain swap-out scenarios are confusing – systems seem to have lots of memory available, with proper settings file system cache should not cause swapping, and obviously in production environment all the memory leaks are ironed out.

And yet in mid-2012 we noticed that our new kernel machines were swapping out for no obvious reason. When it comes to swapping, MySQL community will always point to Jeremy’s post on …