This has been covered before, but I was just setting up a new force type on our servers and thought I would mention it for the fun of it. You see lots of stuff about using mod_rewrite to make friendly URLs or SEO friendly URLs. But, if you are using PHP (and I guess other Apache modules) you can do it without mod_rewrite.  We have been doing this for a while at dealnews.  Even before SEO was an issue.

Setting up Apache

From the docs, the ForceType directive “forces all matching files to be served as the content type given by media type.” Here is an example configuration:

<Location /deals>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Location>

Now any URL like …

after the heidelberg mysql developers meeting, we got on to the serious business of oktoberfest in munich. one of my coworkers had secured tables inside the hippodrom for two of the days, and we took full advantage of that.

the weather was not very good while we were in munich, and we were definitely starting to feel the end of the trip, so we did not explore munich outside of the oktoberfest grounds. that just means we will have to go back another time.

this time my pictures actually have some people in them. and lots of beer.

I wanted to point out something that might not be obvious from the name: MySQL Parallel Dump can be used as a generic wrapper to discover tables and databases, and fork off worker processes to do something to them in parallel. That "something" can easily be invoking mysqlcheck -- or any other program. This makes it really easy for you to do multi-threaded whatever-you-need-to-do on MySQL tables. Here's how.

Basically, if you need a job, or hate your current job, and have time to commit, and if you’re a professional, or just disciplined and care about every little thing you do..Or, if you just want to work with me.. :

Geneva Data, an Internet Security company is looking for PHP developer to work on a unique project in San Antonio, Texas.
We?re open to a full-time, part-time, contract, consulting or project work. We just want the most innovative local PHP programmer available (with experience.)

“Experience” means you can show us proof of your work … whether you have been in the workforce for 6 months or 60 years.

“Innovative” means that you?ve never encountered a problem that you couldn?t solve. We appreciate individuals who experiment with new technologies on personal projects. Creativity is a plus with us.

? MySQL and/or Linux proficiency is a further plus.

? Experience …

MySQL Parallel Dump can now dump a single table simultaneously into many files of a user-specifed size. This not only helps speed dumps, but it paves the way for much more efficient parallel restores. Read on for the details.

Bob Zurek of EnterpriseDB posted a blog entry today titled, "We slammed into a brick wall with MySQL". If you read his blog entry, the information he is referencing is in this press release, FortiusOne Migrates GeoCommons Intelligent Mapping Website to EnterpriseDB Advanced Server.

If you read that press release, it says:

“We slammed into a brick wall with MySQL,” said Chris Ingrassia, chief technology officer, FortiusOne. “As an example, MySQL’s rather limited and incomplete spatial support dramatically impacted performance. We were looking for an affordable database solution, but we required enterprise-class features and performance that MySQL simply couldn’t deliver. Plus, philosophically we want to support …

While writing up a review on a database tool I discovered today, I was inspired to spark a discussion about database GUIs in general. The value of GUI tools for administering database systems like MySQL has been a topic of much debate. ...

Cluster

This blog entry describes how to install MySQL clusters on Solaris.

MySQL cluster consist of 3 seperate types of nodes:

• SQL nodes
• Storage nodes
• Management nodes

The SQL nodes are the nodes that applications can connect to. Internally SQL nodes connect to storage nodes to  process the queries and return the result set to the end client.

The storage nodes are controlled by management nodes. They do most of the work in processing the queries.

Managment nodes manages the entire cluster. They start and stop the data and SQL nodes and manage backups.

Lets start with the simplistic installation where all the nodes of the cluster are on the same box. Of course this is not how you would do a typical MySQL cluster installation...but this is just to get a feel of what is involved in MySQL cluster …

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/10/amazons_dynamo.html

"Most of these services only store and retrieve data by primary key
and do not require the complex querying and management functionality
offered by an RDBMS. This excess functionality requires expensive
hardware and highly skilled personnel for its operation, making it a
very inefficient solution. In addition, the available replication
technologies are limited and typically choose consistency over
availability."

1) Most web work is primary key.
2) Its not transactional.
3) Availability is more important then a lost data

When I joined MySQL four years ago, there was quite a lot of debate about product management. We didn't actually have any product managers and the view in Engineering was "we don't need 'em." The rationale was that we were so far behind in implementing features requested by customers that there was no need to have another opinion. "We already know exactly what we need to do" or "The Community tells us what we should focus on" were typical responses. It took me a while to convince people that product management could add value in helping to prioritize things and... READ MORE