Yesterday's MySQL University session on Gearman for MySQL had a rough start. After I had assigned Giuseppe presenter status we found out that Dimdim (our conferencing system) now turns on video when it discovers a web cam on the presenter's computer. That's not a bad thing in general, but you can't turn it off, which *is* a bad thing when your network bandwidth is less than superior. As a consequence, Giuseppe's voice came over very choppy, and the presentation stopped altogether after a few minutes.

For that reason, we decided to restart the session from scratch. This time Giuseppe turned off his camera before becoming presenter, and the session worked flawlessly. For those of you who've given up because of bad sound quality, the recording is here, and it looks and sounds good. You can find it on the MySQL University session page: …

In the last post on this subject, I discussed the benefits of the InnoDB plugin for operational things, such as creating and dropping indexes, and how much faster and non-obtrusive on other operations this is with the plug-in version of InnoDB, compared to the built-in InnoDB.

This time, I will discuss another benefit of the plugin, which is the operational metadata views provided by the plug-in. A way overdue feature of InnoDB is the ability to inspect locks and lock waiters, to be able to effectively manage lock concurrency issues. In any database using even a moderately complex schema, and having a reasonable amount of writes, concurrenctý issues will often happen. And the issue is that if you cannot monitor them properly, then you may not know what is happening. Users have sessions waiting for locks, then tires …

Our performance tuning guide is now available at infinidb.org.  Subjects touched on  include:
  How are hash joins implemented with InfiniDB?    How is work parallelized across multiple cores, and optionally multiple servers? 
  What "rules of thumb" change with InfiniDB's column storage?
  What is the fastest way to load data with InfiniDB?  
  What is a Batch Primitive Step (BPS)?  

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Our performance tuning guide is now available at infinidb.org.  Subjects touched on  include:
  How are hash joins implemented with InfiniDB?    How is work parallelized across multiple cores, and optionally multiple servers? 
  What "rules of thumb" change with InfiniDB's column storage?
  What is the fastest way to load data with InfiniDB?  
  What is a Batch Primitive Step (BPS)?  

- JRead More...

Wanting to learn Drizzle? My friend Kent is doing just that, and documenting everything as he goes. It’s a great time to learn, as we head up to the bell milestone (which will be awesome) and big user visible changes are certainly slowing.

So, head on over to Learning Drizzle and learn Drizzle with Kent. Should be awesome.

Yesterday's MySQL University session on Gearman for MySQL had a rough start. After I had assigned Giuseppe presenter status we found out that Dimdim (our conferencing system) now turns on video when it discovers a web cam on the presenter's computer. That's not a bad thing in general, but you can't turn it off, which \*is\* a bad thing when your network bandwidth is less than superior. As a consequence, Giuseppe's voice came over very choppy, and the presentation stopped altogether after a few minutes.

For that reason, we decided to restart the session from scratch. This time Giuseppe turned off his camera before becoming presenter, and the session worked flawlessly. For those of you who've given up because of bad sound quality, the recording is here, and it looks and sounds good. You can find it on the MySQL University session page: …

Yesterday's MySQL University session on Gearman for MySQL had a rough start. After I had assigned Giuseppe presenter status we found out that Dimdim (our conferencing system) now turns on video when it discovers a web cam on the presenter's computer. That's not a bad thing in general, but you can't turn it off, which \*is\* a bad thing when your network bandwidth is less than superior. As a consequence, Giuseppe's voice came over very choppy, and the presentation stopped altogether after a few minutes.

For that reason, we decided to restart the session from scratch. This time Giuseppe turned off his camera before becoming presenter, and the session worked flawlessly. For those of you who've given up because of bad sound quality, the recording is here, and it looks and sounds good. You can find it on the MySQL University session page: …

I know a lot of people don’t like registering to download programs (even free ones), but in this case I would like people to register on the site with a valid email address so that I can notify users of new upgrades, security fixes, etc. I’ve had several support requests to fix items that have [...]

Some good changes in this release as usual. There have been some more additions to the analytics, some speed up of the UI and login process, and some long awaited fixed for form Vtypes. In addition to those items, I’m a particular fan of the new Analytics Export tab that lets you grab all of [...]

I am happy to announce today the release of FuseGuard Web Application Firewall for ColdFusion!

FuseGuard 2.0 is the new name for Foundeo Web Application Firewall, but we did a bit more than just change the name!

The biggest new features added to version 2 are the Web Based manager, and the database logger. The web manager main function is to provide reporting for the attacks against your server, but it also allows you to view configuration, and manage users.

Here are some screen shots:

   

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