I decided to start my own little blog on IT and programming.
Little tidbits of information or other ideas as they come
along.
MarkMySQL DBA & Programming Blog by Mark Schoonover
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Hey all -
Some of you have already begun using the new Beta2, but many haven’t so I thought I’d remind you to download the new 5.1 Beta2 and give it a whirl. I’ve been playing with the CSV engine (which first came out in 5.0 in limited form, but is now fully ready for action in 5.1), recently and will be posting a new article to the MySQL Dev Zone soon on all the fun you can have with it.
Great seeing everyone at the recent User’s Conference!
Robin
P.S. Beta2 of 5.1 started with 5.1.9…
May
02
2006
A public SVN tree for the MySQL Documentation is now online.
You can browse all source trees at http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/sources.html. The page includes source trees for the server, GUI tools, and Windows installer.
The Documentation SVN tree is at http://svn.mysql.com/svnpublic/mysqldoc/
,
it can be browsed with your favorite browser or accessed with an
SVN client.
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Right... I now have a bk tree with Falcon here, so I can play
with our new storage engine. Builds fine and works. Do ask me to
show, when I'm at a conference or user group meeting somewhere!
Of course, the integration process is still ongoing. I was
fortunate to spend some time with Jim Starkey at the MySQL Users
Conference, he's a very interesting (and funny! very
important) guy. Knows a thing or two about databases, too
;-)
Still in Seattle. Yesterday evening I was at the MySQL Seattle UG
meeting, Brian's local group. It was fun to meet Wez Maldonado
whom I just knew from the Freenode IRC #mysql channel, and Hannah
Adams-Collier (CJ's other half) who recently assisted the
community team with the updated design of the "what's your
uptime" t-shirts. We had to shuffle from the regular location
because that place was closed on May 1st, but the pizza at the
alternative …
May
02
2006
The Call-for-Papers for the International PHP Conference 2006, 5-8
November in Frankfurt (Germany) has been extended. So, there's
still some more time to get your ideas in there!
The PHP conf is organisationally interesting (perhaps only to
those of us who are involved in organising conferences ;-)
because it has fairly long regular sessions (75 minutes),
speakers can go into considerable depth. There are also "power
workshops" which are 3 or 6 hours long.
It's also a place were core PHP developers and others meet. There
are many conferences, but some are considerably more interesting
than others... I've been to this one for the few years or so, and
it's been excellent.
May
02
2006
By tim
In building our Research data mart, which includes data on book sales trends, job postings), blog postings, and other data sources, Roger Magoulas has had to deal with a lot of very messy textual data, transforming it into something with enough structure to put it into a database. In this entry, he describes some of the problems, solutions, and the skills that are needed for dealing with unstructured data.
Roger wrote:
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When integrating our research data mart with a legacy sales transaction system, I was asked to help tune a data mart with appx 3mm rows that joined to a few large dimensions; an aggregate query was not completing. I was able to tune the query down to …
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02
2006
I had lunch with a company's IT staff yesterday, and asked them, "Which open source projects/products do you use?" They listed off several projects (Tomcat, etc.), but I had to prompt for the most obvious one: "And Linux? I assume you're running Linux?"
"Linux? Oh, of course, I guess we had forgotten that's open source."
This was a hugely telling remark. For this company (and, frankly, for most of the industry), "open source" is short-hand for many things, and sometimes connotes a cutting-edge, not fully baked product. This is accurate in some respects, and wholly inaccurate in others (no one could sanely call Apache, MySQL, etc. "not fully baked").
In this company's mind, Linux is just there. It works, requires no special justification, etc. It just is.
Give JBoss and MySQL a year or two, and they'll be the same. Along with hordes of other open source projects.
For those of you who, like I, have been …
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