Sun's Customer Engineer Conference is now
history and over forty new Certified MySQL Associates are on
the street. Track 15 aka MySQL was a new session for Sun and CEC
was new for George and yours truely.
George Trujillo did a wonderful job, as he always does, in
getting a large room full of people with various skills up to
speed with MySQL. Three sessions a day most for three days after
a long Monday were tough but the folks in Track 15 hung in there.
A few had Oracle or other database experience but most were new
to the subject. By Thursday night they were replicating
databases. Zero to replication in eight sessions. That is
very impressive.
This morning was my turn and the candidates listened intently to
my brief review and then tore into the test. As they finished, I
made a point …
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Just arrived to Charlottesville, VA, with Dups. We drove from Baltimore, MD, where we had an enjoyable MySQL meetup yesterday. The room was small, but packed to capacity with open source enthusiasts. Now waiting for the "opening ceremony" at 6pm, when we will fine tune tomorrow's schedule. The list of attendees is impressive. More than 100 people are registered. It seems to be a very interesting gathering. |
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Andrei Badea, one of our team members, does an excellent screencast showing off some of the new database features in NetBeans 6.5 (due to release next week). Things like code completion, editable results, multiple result tabs, SQL history and easy creation of the Sakila sample database.
Justin Bolter has a nice screencast on using the NetBeans PHP support to build a Flickr slideshow application. A nice way to get a sense of the PHP features in NetBeans.
We made new binaries for MySQL 5.0.67 build 7 which include patches we recently announced.
The -percona release includes:
PLAIN TEXT CODE:
- | innodb_check_defrag.patch | Session status to check fragmentation of the last InnoDB scan | 1.0 | Percona <info@percona.com> | GPL | The names are Innodb_scan_* …
I just read the news.
I don't know about you, but I was pretty much expecting this.
Even though it may cost me my job, I am glad they bit the bullet
and cut 15%. We're just burning too much cash and the size of the
company didn't match its current market cap.
How do I feel? Relieved, in a way, because I knew it was coming.
Am I affected? I have no idea. Nobody's telling the peeps yet,
that will happen in the next few weeks.
Software is getting seriously reorganized. NetBeans is now part
of the cloud computing platform. Why? My blog, my opinion:
because I think Sun gets it that what Sun can offer in this space
is a developer platform. Amazon Web Services is a bunch of cogs
and wheels targeted at system …
This is the 123rd edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. Welcome.
Let’s begin with some SQL Server, where it was a week of technical tips. Alexander Kuznetsov looks at defensive database programming. “In most cases LIKE conditions should by followed by ESCAPE clauses,” he asserts, continuing, “You have a choice: you can either have a CHECK constraint disallow special characters, or you can fix the procedure,” thus error-proofing your logic. Readers Alejandro Mesa and Adam Machanic suggest a couple refinements.
On …
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[Read more]I recently found myself wishing for an async library for MySQL. My goal is to be able to fire off queries to a group of federated servers in parallel and aggregate the results in my code.
With the standard client (DBD::mysql), I'd have to query the servers one at a time. If there are 10 servers and each query takes 0.5 seconds, my code would stall for 5 seconds. But by using an async library, I could fire off all the queries and fetch the results as they become available. The overall wait time should not be much more than 0.5 seconds.
While I found little evidence of anyone doing this in practice, my search led me to the perl-mysql-async project on Google Code. It's a pure-Perl implementation of the MySQL 4.1 protocol and an asyncronous client that uses …
[Read more]After almost 3 years working in Support then Training, it's time to move on. I haven't blogged much in a while, but it's something I plan to work on more now I sit on the other side.