Another short post just to remember the procedure for the next time I’ll be setting up a new mac. For those of my readers who do not know what Midnight Commander (aka mc) is, GNU Midnight Commander is a visual file manager, created under a heavy influence of Norton Commander file manager from dark DOS ages For more information, you can visit their web site. Now, get to the installation topic itself.

To install mc on a Mac OS X machine, you need macports installed and then first thing you’ll need to do is to install some prerequisite libraries:

Next thing, download the sources …

Those of you that know the documentation well will be aware of the old page we used to have for the MySQL documentation. It was huge, and over the years we’d done a number of things to try and improve the layout and make it easier to find what you wanted. We had in-age links to jump to the different documentation types, and the old topic table that allowed you to jump to specific parts of the documentation. The problem was that the more documentation that we produced (and there are over a thousand docs in various formats now), the bigger the page got. When we added the individual topic guides, for example, we trebled the size of the page by adding the links for each individual topic guide. Ultimately that makes it increasingly difficult for you guys to find what you are looking for, despite the quick links and other elements. We’ve now changed all this and split the single, big, monolithic …

Those of you that know the documentation well will be aware of the old page we used to have for the MySQL documentation. It was huge, and over the years we’d done a number of things to try and improve the layout and make it easier to find what you wanted. We had in-age links to jump to the different documentation types, and the old topic table that allowed you to jump to specific parts of the documentation.

The problem was that the more documentation that we produced (and there are over a thousand docs in various formats now), the bigger the page got. When we added the individual topic guides, for example, we trebled the size of the page by adding the links for each individual topic guide.

Ultimately that makes it increasingly difficult for you guys to find what you are looking for, despite the quick links and other elements.

We’ve now changed all this and split …

I’ve talked about PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA in the past - almost a year ago now.

Back then the feature was just coming together in to something useable, and was on the cusp of moving towards code review. It entered code review, and went around, and around for 9 months, whilst various refinements were made.

Never the less, Marc Alff persevered (much respect!), and yesterday pushed his final merge in to the mysql-next-mr bzr tree. PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA is now awaiting the next milestone release, and will be a part of the next GA release of MySQL!

We have the initial documentation ready:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/performance-schema/en/index.html

This first round adds the infrastructure to take monitoring of the MySQL Server to the …

Being an employee of MySQL (past and present), every time I see something related to dolphins it catches my eye - and I just came across this:

Scientists say dolphins should be treated as ‘non-human persons’

The treatment of dolphins has long been an issue for me, I utterly despise some of the things I have seen, and read about. MySQL’s dolphin - Sakila - has always been seen as a symbol of freedom. This is marred by reality, hopefully this will change:

“The researchers argue that their work shows it is morally unacceptable to keep such intelligent animals in amusement parks or to kill them for food or by accident when fishing. Some 300,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises die in this way each year.”

Some other things in the article also ring true for me, in other ways. …

If there’s one thing that will always make me angry, it’s people that should not be editing my code going and editing my code. If you want to change something on the server and you have sudo privileges please let the real admin know beforehand. I don’t mind people improving processes or scripts but if [...]

And I looked back and thought of updating this post… Recently Monty has posted again and I completely convinced with whatever Monty has conveyed now or earlier. The explainations he has provided under self-interview,…

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Like I mentioned in my last blog post, we have a company internal framework that is quite advanced thanks to the various symfony components we have integrated. Its other main advantage is that it can do a lot with very little code. The net benefit of this is that it's extremely easy to learn and debug. Especially the last point can be somewhat painful with symfony since inheritance trees tend to be quite large and things get delegated to other objects etc. However once you start getting a hang of where things are, symfony is very powerful indeed. The other day we had a little hackday at Liip where we wanted to write a little google maps app. The idea was to have different kinds of markers shown on the map which when clicking on them would both load some data into the classic GMap marker bubbles as well as some additional data into a div …

Recently MySQL has offered MySQL Certification Free Retake on both DBA or Developer Certifications for a limited time. For MySQL Certifications: 1. MySQL 5.0 Data Base Administrator Certification (SCMDBA) –…

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And I looked back and thought of updating this post… We all are aware about the acquisition happened to MySQL; Sun and now Oracle. A common understanding tells me that…

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