I follow only a few comics in my feed reader: Get Fuzzy, Dilbert, XKCD, and now The Adventures of Ace, DBA. It’s kind of XKCD-ish, only it’s about Oracle and it doesn’t have the extra punch line when you hover your mouse over the picture. And it’s proof that a DBMS (even one I don’t use) can be pretty damn funny.

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I'm off in few hours to attend DebConf 8 in lovely Mar del Plata, Argentina.  The only bummer is that its winter down there so this seaside resort is going to be a bit chlly and as a result Im not able to pack as light as I usually do.  That being said, getting away from the string of 100 degree days that we've been having here in Austin isn't such a bad thing.

I had a great time at DebConf 7 in Edinburgh, particularly since it was a homecoming of sorts for me.  This time its exciting since I've never been to Argentina before and have heard great things. Like last year, Sun is a Silver Sponsor of the event.

On …

I'm off in few hours to attend DebConf 8 in lovely Mar del Plata, Argentina.  The only bummer is that its winter down there so this seaside resort is going to be a bit chlly and as a result Im not able to pack as light as I usually do.  That being said, getting away from the string of 100 degree days that we've been having here in Austin isn't such a bad thing.

I had a great time at DebConf 7 in Edinburgh, particularly since it was a homecoming of sorts for me.  This time its exciting since I've never been to Argentina before and have heard great things. Like last year, Sun is a Silver Sponsor of the event.

On …

Excited with the release of the MySQL Connector/C++, I thought I’d get it going on Mac OS X.

You’ll first hit the problem that Mac OS X doesn’t come with CMake. So you’ll have to download it from the site - there’s a warning there that the .dmg installer only works for Tiger, but I ran it on Leopard, and its just fine. Don’t forget to allow it to create links in /usr/bin for ease of use.

After that, you will need to install glib. But to get glib going, you need some dependencies:

• gettext
• …

On Wednesday, September 17 there will be a web based seminar on MySQL 5.1.

Seminar will be in Italian and anyone who is interested is invited to join us!

You can find details here.

If you are a database administrator or a developer and you are courious about new features coming with MySQL 5.1 then this is the right webinar to attend. In the meantime, to better understand MySQL 5.1, take have a look at "Inside MySQL 5.1" white paper.

See you soon!

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On Wednesday, September 17 there will be a web based seminar on MySQL 5.1. 

Seminar will be in Italian and anyone who is interested is invited to join us!

You can find details here.

If you are a database administrator or a developer and you are courious about new features coming with MySQL 5.1 then this is the right webinar to attend. In the meantime, to better understand MySQL 5.1, take have a look at "Inside MySQL 5.1" white paper.

See you soon! 

On Wednesday, September 17 there will be a web based seminar on MySQL 5.1. 

Seminar will be in Italian and anyone who is interested is invited to join us!

You can find details here.

If you are a database administrator or a developer and you are courious about new features coming with MySQL 5.1 then this is the right webinar to attend. In the meantime, to better understand MySQL 5.1, take have a look at "Inside MySQL 5.1" white paper.

See you soon! 

Finally the on-demand version of the web based seminar is online. You can find recording here and you can also download presentation slides.

Please note that due to a technical problem in the time span  11:10 - 13:20 slides are not visible, but audio is good. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks to everyone who attended!

Finally the on-demand version of the web based seminar is online. You can find recording here and you can also download presentation slides.

Please note that due to a technical problem in the time span  11:10 - 13:20 slides are not visible, but audio is good. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks to everyone who attended!

I have never, ever seen this before. I don’t even know how the table was created with a different collation. However, I had all my other tables created with the character set utf8, no collation specified.

I had to convert the second table to match the character set. This probably wouldn’t have been a problem if I wasn’t joining on a character field.

alter table exclusion CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8;

First time I’ve ever seen that one.