So, we are not officially looking for PHP/MySQL developers.  However, we could start at any moment.  So, I want to be ready.  There is a really good chance that we will hire someone by the end of the year if not sooner.

So, if you want to work with an up and coming company that uses PHP, MySQL, Gentoo Linux and other open source technology, you can go ahead and send us a resume.  Just email it to me at brianm@dealnews.com.  You will have to confirm your emails.  Spam on that account reach huge numbers years ago, so I am not going to bother with cute notation for my email address.

This job would most likely require moving to Huntsville, AL.  Before you make an Alabama joke, Huntsville has been recognized as a great place for business and technology.  In 2006 it was …

Matt asks (almost as an aside to a post on a related topic): My question: why not just buy Red Hat? Before Red Hat buys MySQL, and gives those database numbers a run for their money? Then, Larry Dingnan writes: A Credit Suisse analyst thinks BEA Systems is likely to go on the auction block in the next three to six months. And the potential buyer is two likely suspects: Private equity firms or Oracle, which indicated it has no plans to slow down its acquisition pace. I'll play Nostradamus and predict that Oracle will not buy Red Hat. Oracle... READ MORE

OK, so you have a nice replication setup, but how do you know it is actually working, and what do you do when it stops? This short article shows how to check and quickly fix replication that has stopped. This procedure takes 2 minutes and can be done remotely on the command line.

Back in February I wrote about the release of Yahoo! Pipes (see Yahoo! Pipes: Unlocking the Data Web):

So if you're interested in an interactive on-line data mashup construction set, check it out and have a look at the existing pipes developers have created. I think it's one of the coolest web apps we've released in a long time, and I'm not just saying that because I know the guys who built it. Not only does it make hard things easy (like Perl has done for years), the user interface kicks ass too. It's exciting both from a technological point of view and because of the implications for the web as a whole.

Since February, Pipes has been growing and improving (see the Pipes blog) and the …

Max Mether pointed out an error in something I mentioned last week in a performance tuning webinar and I wanted to clarify and correct. In the webinar I said that concurrent inserts would only be available on a MyISAM table if an AUTO_INCREMENT primary key was used. That's incorrect. I was confusing the concurrent_insert server variable with the AUTO_INCREMENT property. I should have just re-read my own book, which covers the topic in some detail in Chapter 5. Oh well.

But, in case you missed the webinar or just aren't aware of what concurrent insert is, let me explain. First, some background information on MyISAM.

MyISAM and Table-Level Locks

Unlike InnoDB, which employs row-level locking, MyISAM uses a much coarser-grained locking system to ensure …

How does Buffer Pool size affects Innodb Performance ? I always expected the effect to be positive, Innodb with large buffer pool to performing better. Including Recovery of course. I even blogged about it.

It turns out it is not always the case. Last week I was called to help with Innodb crash recovery on box with large amount of memory (64GB) with Innodb Buffer pool configured to be just a bit over 20GB. Innodb recovery was taking long hours with reasonably sized Innodb log files (256M) gradually progressing slower and slower so it was just about 50% after 3 hours with very little disk IO and one CPU 100% busy.

I took oprofile to see what exactly CPU is being spent for and saw the following picture:

samples % app name symbol name
1345161 95.2609 mysqld …

OK, so you have a nice replication setup, but how do you know it is actually working, and what do you do when it stops? This short article shows how to check and quickly fix replication that has stopped. This procedure takes 2 minutes and can be done remotely on the command line.

Tell me what’s wrong with the picture:

Anyways, Ubuntu Live looks like a great conference. The session line-up looks more like a conference than the one-day FUDCon’s, and with the tracks (there are 4 concurrent tracks), I am truly impressed. A big part of me wishes I was there… Some interesting tech bloggers like Stephen O’Grady of Redmonk fame, and Matt Asay are keynoting.

Of course, MySQL’s very own CEO, Mårten Mickos is also giving a keynote on Monday July 23, at 9:20-9.40am.

One caveat with Ubuntu Live: its cost. FUDCon is free, and true to its nature, really does spread community love (with about two tracks). Its USD$895 to attend Ubuntu Live - very troublesome to the pocketbook.

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After some consideration I have decided to move the BLOB repository from PBXT to MyBS (§). This has the advantage that any engine that does not have its own BLOB repository (or is otherwise not suitable for storing large amounts of BLOB data) can reference BLOBs in the MyBS BLOB repository.

(§) MyBS stands for "BLOB Streaming for MySQL". The BLOB Streaming engine is a new storage engine for MySQL which allows you to stream media data directly in and out of the database. More info at www.blobstreaming.org.

Lets look at an example of this. Assume my standard example table:

CREATE TABLE notes_tab (
  n_id    int PRIMARY KEY,
  n_text  longblob
) ENGINE=PBXT;

And assume we have a file called blob_eg.txt with the contents "This is a BLOB Streaming upload test".

Firstly, I can upload a BLOB to the MyBS BLOB …

The good people at Unwired are looking for basically a MySQL DBA, although you'd also have the opportunity to do some coding, work on other projects and with additional technologies. You'll need to have decent experience with MySQL 4 and 5, understanding of replication and backup/recovery methods, query and server performance tuning.

You don't need to be a guru on all of these topics, but show you have a clue level, work smart, and pick up new stuff quickly. Unwired offers a salary package of around 90K, which seems fairly reasonable.
This looks like an excellent opportunity for a MySQL-ish person in Australia.

If you're interested, you can contact me (I have some additional info here too) and I can put you in touch with the right people. (my email is my first name @ my last name dot com dot au)