Welcome, readers, to the 92nd Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs.

Brian “Krow” Aker started an interesting blog-thread with his post, The Death of Read Replication, the crux of which is that object caches, such as memcached, make the DBMS itself a little less central, particularly in “Web 2.0″ scenarios. “What does this mean? Less database servers. Bringing down your load means you push off the load to another tier. . . . Why do I need to go through MySQL at all… unless I just want it as a backup or for ad-hoc reporting?”

Ronald Bradford responds with …

Earlier this week I attended the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, serendipitously held here Austin.  It was a fantastic opportunity to meet a lot of the people in the community whom I hadn't met before as well as to catch up with old friends.

 
Maddog (R) helping Executive Director Jim "Led" Zemlin to Flourish 

Great Speakers
(and I'm not talking Bose, which really aren't great speakers anyway)

There was an impressive line up of panels and speakers the first day of the summit …

MySQL Backups Using ZRM For MySQL 2.0

Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL simplifies life of a database administrator who needs an easy to use yet flexible and robust backup and recovery solution for MySQL server.

Hi!

“MySQL Spring Festival 2008” was held in Tokyo on April 9. It was a huge success thanks to many people coming. We appreciate your participation and joining us!

The event was to celebrate and officially announce the “Sun & MySQL acquisition”, Japanese Technical Support and Japanese version of MySQL Enterprise Monitor along with Kaj Arno, Vice President of MySQL Community Relations.

As the event started at 2pm. Tomohiko Suetsugu, President of Sun Microsystems K.K. started off addressing the audience with his keynote opening speech and talked about business opportunities growing through the Sun-MySQL integration. Thereafter, Larry Stefonic addressed the audience with his presentation, which explained MySQL business in Asia Pacific region and MySQL’s commitment to the Japan market. Lastly, he introduced the …

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According to the official documentation, this variable defines "The number of logical reads that InnoDB could not satisfy from the buffer pool …

“The question is not why use open source, but how to best use open source,” wrote Matt Asay earlier this week. It was a throwaway point but one that I think deserves more attention.

It occurred to me that “how” rather than “why” is the most significant question that open source vendors and projects should be answering right now as they try to encourage greater adoption of open source software.

There can’t be a CIO or IT director left on the planet that hasn’t either asked or been told why they should deploy open source software. They are either inclined towards believing the claims of theoretical benefits or they’re not. How many have asked or been told how they can take advantage of open source software?

Certainly those that are convinced or intrigued by the potential benefits will have gone on to explore …

My presentation on BLOB Streaming at the MySQL Conference next week will be very practical.

I have made quite a few graphics to show how it works, and plan to demonstrate the current version of the BLOB Streaming engine.

"To BLOB or not to BLOB?" is a common question in the database world. There are advantages and disadvantages to both sides. I'll be explaining why I believe that the "BLOB Repository" (a central component of the BLOB Streaming Architecture) combines the advantages of both approaches.

Check it out:

An Introduction to BLOB Streaming for MySQL Project
3:05pm - 3:50pm Wednesday, 04/16/2008
Ballroom A

Ronald Bradford,
Chief Operating Officer (COO),
PrimeBase Technologies

The official press release of my commencement at PrimeBase Technologies can be now found at
Ronald Bradford strengthens management team and new open source initiative.

I’m very excited to be the COO, that’s Chief Operating Officer, rather impressive if you say it out loud a few times. My close friends and MySQL colleagues in the know in New York were also most impressed I’ve made CxO status during celebrations in recent previous weeks. My title was under wraps until I’d started.

What does COO mean at PrimeBase Technologies? I’m being charged with a number of things. I will responsible for the new Business Solutions division which includes helping to define the product road map for …

As Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 is launched along with the Open Application Services solution which includes PostgreSQL, the talk I gave at PostgreSQL East 2008 on "Best Practices with PostgreSQL on Solaris" might be helpful for many new users.

If there are questions let me know.

So, I’m leaving on a jet plane, to head to the MySQL Conference & Expo 2008. Normally, this is a flight I make via Auckland or Sydney, but this time its via Singapore.

Singapore is a hub in Asia, so let me share a few tips:

• The airport is huge. Terminal 3 reminds me of being in one of Heathrow’s terminals. Leave plenty of time to walk from gate to gate (up to 20 minutes).
• US flights probably always leave from Terminal 3, around gates A16-A20. The gates are speculation, mainly because of the extra security available out there. (A18, for Los Angeles, A16 for San Francisco, I’m pretty sure I’m right).
• Within A16-A20, you’ll not notice any power sockets available for your laptop. Clearly, very negative for the business traveller.
• You can get free wireless, via the Wireless@SG access point. Just get your mobile phone to roam to …