With the advent of fast and reasonably sized SSD drives, I have
to admit that even I, as one who still thinks the standard
hard-drive tends to be a better choice, am warming up to
solid-state. One crazy benchmark I have always wanted to do is
how using consumer flash cards (SecureDigital, CompactFlash,
etc.) stack up to their dedicated drive brethren. I just noticed
that you can now buy off-brand 4GB High-Speed SD cards for around
$10. That is amazingly impressive when you consider, even a few
months ago, how much 4GB cards cost. After doing a bit of math,
the economics work out pretty well. To match a 64GB SSD drive in
capacity, I need 16 4GB SD cards. At $10 a piece, that's only
$160. That's a pretty cheap way to match the capacity of an SSD
drive without the cost.
Of course, there's a huge catch, or everyone would likely already
be doing this. Actually there are quite a few. The numbers I ran
don't include the cost of USB card …
A gentle reminder: next week, there will be two more stops of the MySQL Meetup Mashup Tour:
- Monday, April 7th, 19:00: Hamburg, Germany. We will meet in the meeting rooms of the local Sun Microsystems offices ( Nagelsweg 55, 22097 Hamburg). There will be two technical sessions: Giuseppe will talk about the MySQL Sandbox, Kay Koll will give a presentation about how to combine MySQL with OpenOffice.org. He will also describe the new report generator and give an overview over the future of OpenOffice. You can register for this event via meetup.com or …
If you've been following his blog, then
you will already know that Ronald Bradford has joined PrimeBase
Technologies. We are very pleased to have him on board! As
many know, Ronald has always been very active in the MySQL
community as far as his job has made this possible.
Ironically during his time at MySQL he was less present in the
community than before. When we discussed our plans for PrimeBase
with him, Ronald was interested because it was an opportunity to
return to a more active role in the community. I am very glad
that this motivation was understood by almost everyone at MySQL
and we are all looking forward to seeing and hearing more from
Ronald.
But, of course, Ronald is not "just a pretty face" ;) He will be
helping us to design and specify our open source products
(including …
Read more about the April Fool pranks played at Sun over past
years.
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Today I started my new job at PrimeBase Technologies. The company that has brought you the PBXT and Blob Streaming Pluggable Storage Engines for MySQL 5.1.
My move to Germany has gone mostly without incident and now I’m settling in to different weather, language and food, plus the change in time zones +6 hours.
A smaller company from my previous, but I’m part of a larger group then expected. One of 26 people in the office. It’s good to have a desk, a big monitor (and definitely not a German keyboard) and see and talk to people on various topics and interests in comparison to either past work at home by myself, or on a new customer site each week during my consulting days.
Preparations for the upcoming …
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MySQL Proxy allows you to execute multiple queries, by inserting them
into the query queue.
What happens if one of the queries in the pipeline generates an
error?
If you don't handle this occurrence, the Proxy will continue
sending to the server all the queries in the pipeline, regardless
of the result. It's easy to understand that, if the second query
depends on the execution of the first one, checking the result of
each query is essential.
We know already how to return an error. We only need to apply that
knowledge in the right place.
The read_query_result() from the previous …
Contrary to my earlier April Fool’s Stuck - No country to call home I’m alive and well in Hamburg Germany with my new job at PrimeBase Technologies.
Thanks for those concerned MySQL souls that fell pray to my “Evil Genius” as Farhan called it.
Looking forward to seeing people at the MySQL User Conference in Santa Clara in two weeks.
There was a Joomla! CMS user group meeting in Brisbane
yesterday (yes on April 1st but no joke), which featured
Joomla!'s main man Andrew Eddie, another core developer Sam
Moffatt. It was a good meeting (food & drink was provided, which
always helps too). Installation of Joomla! is a breeze, and I'm
told that it's now powering 2% of sites around the world
now.
A lot of skilled web developers use it, but that's not the reason
for the high uptake. It appears that "ordinary users" with little
or no web experience are able to install and use Joomla!
effectively to set up their little websites, and that is quite an
accomplishment. In that context, it's perhaps similar to PHP in
the web scripting sphere, and MySQL in the database realm
(although one might say that SQLite is even easier in specific
contexts).
There was also a brief demo of …
So that's what happened after the "So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish"....
congrats to Steve Curry (honorary Australian!), Zack Urlocker,
Marten Mickos and the rest of the gang who pulled this stunt at Sun HQ. I think it was good
clean fun. Check out the video, too. I hear that Sun employees
took good care of the 500 dolphins, leaving nothing to clean
up.
Looking at the photos on PicassaWeb, I wonder about one thing...
browse here: http://picasaweb.google.com/ZUrlocker/DolphinStunt/photo#5184192254851634418
[sorry I can't make the photo show …
My wife wants to learn database design. She is an archaeologist. She wants to read a book written in plain English, not h4×0r jargon. She is smart and capable and knows her own data, but does not know SQL or database theory. She wants to be able to design databases and be understood by others who know database design. She also wants to be able to explain her ideas to a programmer who will build the systems she’s designing. Is there a book for her?