So after seeing Paul Fenwick rave about the presenter screen for OO 3, I decided to grab the debs and give it a go.

It still is very slow opening large presentations (i.e. mine), but it does look nicer at least… well… at least some of the widgets do.

Will report back when I’ve had a bit more time to fiddle with it.

I confess — I have not always been an exclusive MySQL user. I have fooled around with other DBMSs. I was young, inexperienced, and I needed the money, I swear!

This comes about because I was doing some electronic de-crufting….From a file last modified on 10:50 am on 2005-06-30:

> more addcatalog.sh
#!/bin/sh

 db2 catalog tcpip node $1 remote $2 server 50000
 db2 terminate
 db2 catalog database sample as $2 at node $1
 db2 terminate

# [db2inst1@midgard db2inst1]$ db2sql92 -a db2inst3/password -d coworkername

And from the same time-frame there’s also:

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First in our series of Use Case reports on new MySQL 5.1 features, we have Greg Haase of Lotame describing his innovative use of partitioning. Usually, the creators of new applications are unaware of the various tweaking that users may submit their features to, in order to achieve surprising results. We in the community team are usually on the tweaking side, and we like to surprise developers with (positive) side effects of the existing features. This time, we were caught by surprise. Greg's usage of partitioning and events is really cool!

Over a year ago I wrote about pretty nasty Innodb Recovery Bug. I ran in the same situation again (different system, different customer) and went to see the status of the bug... and it is still open.

You may thing it is minor issue but in fact with large buffer pool this bug makes database virtually unrecoverable (if 10% of progress in 2hours qualifies as that). It is especially nasty as it is quite hard to predict. Both customers had MySQL crash recovery happening in reasonable time... most of the times until they run into this problem.

So what is the point ? Have modest expectations about when your favorite MySQL bugs are fixed (This is actually Innodb one, so Innobase/Oracle is responsible for fixing it not MySQL/Sun but there are …

Here is my talk from LinuxWorld this year:
http://download.tangent.org/talks/Getting%20More%20Out%20of%20Memcached%20with%20Libmemecached.mp3

The Study guide I mention can be found here:
http://download.tangent.org/talks/Memcached%20Study.pdf

The talk is general in nature, but it does have some points on how to work with MySQL and Memcached in the same applications stack.

Yes, it has been too long since I last posted on this blog (3 months) - that's my apology; let's move forward.There's too many interesting MySQL bits and pieces that I still come across my desk that I cannot help but post these fantastic learning opportunities to my blog. Obviously, you can read about all things interesting from PlanetMySql.org, but I hope that my blog will help sift people

An MDM system allows a single, consolidated, presentation from multiple data sources. Mural brings the experience from JavaCAPS, and adds OpenSource and …

One of the sessions at DrupalCon I attended was Larry Garfield's talk about "Drupal Databases: The Next Generation", which gave me a good insight into the current state of the Drupal database layer and how they plan to overhaul it for Drupal 7. The key points that I took away:

• A new API based on PDO
• Object-oriented, requiring PHP5
• Support for using prepared statements
• A unified access API
• A query builder
• More support for other database systems (currently Drupal supports MySQL and PostgreSQL only). In particular, they are …

There are many times when I needed to find out my outgoing (or external) IP for the servers which are behind load balancers or firewalls.  I used to just login to another external server from the server in question and find out by looking at “who” what my external ip is.  Even though it works and I am so used to it, today I decided to figure out a more graceful way of finding my outgoing ip.  As most of us already know, whatismyip.com is the quickest way to find out your outgoing ip from the browser.  So I decided to use the same way on the servers.  So I issued a wget:

wget http://www.whatismyip.org

Well that does the trick.  But being lazy as I am, I did not want to have to cat the output file to find out the ip (plus there is no point of creating extra files and doing extra work to remove them).  …

The MySQL 5.1 Use Case Competition is in full swing - we've already received a number of cool and interesting submissions, which we will turn into articles that will be published on the MySQL Developer Zone over the course of the coming weeks. Today we received a note from Jakub Vrána from the Prague, Czech republic. He's the author of phpMinAdmin, a MySQL management tool written in PHP. Here's what he wrote:

In the beginning of September 2008, I have implemented MySQL 5.1 Events to the database management tool phpMinAdmin. I've used the Windows version of MySQL 5.1.26 for the development.

As phpMinAdmin …