I had a nice chat with Kieran from Acquia at DrupalCon last week - we discussed how people running local Drupal user groups could expand their outreach into other communities, in particular into the MySQL User Groups. Scott Mattoon captured our conversation on video, which is now available on blip.tv:
The gist of what we talked about: if you are organizing a local Drupal User Group Meetup, check out http://mysql.meetup.com …
[Read more]Attention MySQL engineers and Drizzle contributors: upgrade to Bazaar 1.6.1 now to get some fairly massive performance speedups for bzr branch commands. As I noted in my last article on Launchpad code management, Bazaar 1.5 was having some performance issues when branching large project trees such as MySQL. In the article, I showed it was taking Bazaar 1.5 91 minutes to do the initial branch. With John Arbash Meinel's performance patches, the time to branch was cut down to 23 minutes, which is a fantastic improvement.
Ubuntu users: grab the 1.6.1 Bazaar package for your Ubuntu version from the Launchpad.net Bazaar Project Package Archive.
Mac OSX users:: grab the disk image here, with …
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Are you a student and like to earn $500 ? Here are three
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Make sure to read the …
Hi,
The technical webinar titled “Scalable MySQL High Availability Architectures” has been scheduled on September 12.
Here is general information:
- Title: MySQL Live Webinar: Scalable MySQL High Availability
Architectures (Australia time)
- Date: Friday, September 12, 2008, 9:00 Sydney time, 11:00 am
Wellington time, September 11 at 6:00 pm CDT
- Presenter: Jimmy Guerrero, Sr Product Marketing Manager, Sun
Microsystems - Database Group
- Registration URL: http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/web-seminars/display-200.html
This webinar will explore various MySQL high availability technologies and architectures. We will explore the uses cases for when to implement MySQL Replication, MySQL Cluster, Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD) and other …
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In my last blog post, I discussed storing conditions in the database. For a
quick reminder, I suggested that you store all the under-lying
conditions (the if-then-else statements) from your code in your
database. From my example, I used "did the sales person sell more
then average for that day" ( sold_more_than_average BOOLEAN) and
the answer would be True or False.
In this post, I would like to discuss connecting those same
conditions with a decision table.Before I get started, I would
like to take a moment and reminisce about some of the previous
posts I talked about decision tables to help explain them
better.
Decision Tables and Your Database - November
25, 2007
Where I talk about decision trees …
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Here’s an easy way to make USD$500 (grand prize), or USD$250 (five runners up). All you have to do is use the MySQL database (5.1) and the GlassFish application server (v2 Update Release 2) to develop a cool web application and write a review of your experience using these products.
The deadline for this is October 22, 2008. Remember to read the contest details, as it lists eligibility criteria, and how we’re judging the entries.
As a judge, here’s my advice:
Okay so, having China make API calls to the US, is not a good
idea if latency is an issue for you. The speed of light is fast,
yet not fast enough. Couple this fact with poor or over saturated
trans-pacific lines your limited in what you can do. The best way
to remove timeouts and reduce latency is to have your application
close to China. Below are some lessons learned.
Lesson #1
If you want to keep your user data private, keep the data outside
of China.
Lesson #2
Hardware in Asia, although made there is not as good as what you
can get here, weird I know. So, plan for regular failure.
Lesson #3
If transferring mySQL data from the US to China, convert it to
text, compress it, and develop a solution to recover from an
abruptly closed connection.
Lesson #4
The entire infrastructure of an app should never have a
dependency for …
Sun Microsystems today announced that Atos Worldline, a subsidiary of the Atos Origin group, has joined its MySQL™ Authorized Hosting partner program, specifically designed for managed hosting providers, SaaS (Software as a Service) vendors, and mobility service providers.
Innovation Insider is a show on Blog TalkRadio from Sun Microsystems that features discussions with industry innovators on a variety of topics.
When: 12:30-1:30 p.m. PDT, Thursday, September 4
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Podcasts will be posted here after every show: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/stations/sunradio/featured.aspx
Thanks to Akinori MUSHA, Q4M has become part of the FreeBSD Ports Collection.
If you are using FreeBSD, Q4M can be installed by following the steps below.
# cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql-q4m # make install # echo 'mysql_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start # mysql -u root -f mysql < work/q4m-0.8.3/support-files/install.sql
Running either cvsup or portsnap might be necessary to update the installed ports collection to the newest state. Since the port depends on mysql51-server, you should make deinstall if an older version of mysql is already installed via the ports collection. If you want to test the installation, type:
# chmod 755 work/q4m-0.8.3/support-files/q4m-forward # make …[Read more]