Everything seemed complete after configuring my standalone MySQL instance to a LAMP installation, but last night I started playing with the image files. It turns out that I failed to install the php-gd library.

There’s very little feedback when you try to troubleshoot why you can’t read an image. In fact, the error message for reading the BLOB from MySQL was only available on the local Firefox browser:

      The image "http://localhost/ConvertMySQLBlobToImage.php" cannot be displayed because it contains errors.

The fix requires root to install the php-gd library with the yum utility:

yum install php-gd

You’ll need to answer …

Few months ago, when MySQL Engineering Team moved MySQL Server sources to GitHub I found it would be waste of time to manually copy all scripts which I use to regularly and automatically build and test all versions, needed for verifying bug reports. I run these scripts on 3 machines at least. So I started my own GitHub project, called mysql-scripts

Now this project contains four scripts. First one is build.sh which  I use for building. By default it checks out MySQL Server sources, builds them in directory $HOME/src/mysql-VERSION, then installs to $HOME/build/mysql-VERSION But all configuration is settable. For example, now I regularly build Percona Server with single command `build.sh -g …

The mysql> command-line prompt is iconic, shown in countless documentation pages, forum posts, tutorials and manuals. It’s immediately identifiable – one look, and you immediately know the context in which commands are being executed. So it’s only with good reason that we would consider changing the prompt value to something else, and Daniël van Eeden provided a compelling suggestion to modify this to provide user, host and database context. Because the mysql prompt is user-configurable, this is easy to do dynamically:

mysql> prompt something>
PROMPT set to 'something> '
something> select 1;
+---+
| 1 |
+---+
| 1 |
+---+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

something>

Using the special character …

(この記事は InnoDB Full-Text : N-gram Parser を Yoshiaki Yamasaki が翻訳したものです)

デフォルトのInnoDB全文検索パーサー(構文解析プログラム)は、空白がトークン(語句)もしくは単語の区切りとなっているラテン語ベースの言語に対して理想的です。しかし、個々の単語の区切り文字が存在せず、それぞれの単語は複数の文字で構成できる中国語・日本語・韓国語(CJK)のような言語には向いていません。そこで、私たちは異なった方法で単語/トークンを識別する方法を必要とします。
私は今 …

While I try to keep things simple, sometimes eliminating options and explanations comes back to haunt me. After posting how to open a Fedora firewall port for a LAMP stack, somebody got trapped by my instructions for installing MySQL on Fedora. They got stuck because they had the following setting in their /etc/my.cnf file:

bind-address=localhost.localdomain

I’d suggested using that bind-address value for a DHCP VMware Fedora installation in Step #7. I was trying to create an example for an isolated testing instance, which is why I set the bind-address to a localhost.localdomain value. They raised the following error when they …

While we always want better performance and more and larger features for MySQL, those cannot just “magically appear” from one version to another, requiring deep architecture changes and lots of lines of code. However, there are sometimes smaller features and fixes that could be implemented by an intern or an external contributor, mainly at SQL layer, and that could make the MySQL ecosystem friendlier to newbies and non-experts. Making a piece of software easier to use is sometimes overlooked, but it is incredibly important -not everybody using MySQL is a DBA, and the more people adopting it, more people will be able to live from it, both upstream and as third party providers.

Here it is my own personal list of fixes for EXPLAIN messages. If you are an experienced MySQL user you are probably aware of their meaning, but that doesn’t solve the problem for beginners. The reason why I am writing a blog post is to gather …

After installing the LAMP stack on Fedora, you need to open port 80 in the Firewall to access the PHP programs on the Fedora instance from external servers. You can open a firewall port by launching the firewall-config application as the root user with the following syntax:

firewall-config

The firewall-config utility opens the following dialog:

Click on the Ports tab, and you’ll see the following:

…

My students wanted an extra credit assignment, so I thought a LAMP configuration and test would be appropriate. The only problem was I hadn’t added it to their course VMware instance. So, here are the instructions to install Apache2, PHP, and MySQLi for a complete LAMP stack when MySQL is already installed.

The post builds on my Fedora Install of MySQL and MySQL Workbench on Fedora posts from last year. It also presumes that you’ve installed a studentdb database but you need to know how to do that let me know (but it hasn’t changed much from the example at the bottom of this old MySQL 5.1 blog post).

You …

Here’s your chance to get on stage with Woz! Sort of. Apple co-founder and Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist Steve Wozniak will participate in a moderated Q&A on creativity and innovation April 14 during the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo in Santa Clara, California.

Woz once said that he never intended to change the world. That was the other Steve, Steve Jobs.

“I didn’t want to start this company,” Woz told the Seattle Times of Apple’s beginnings in a 2006 interview. “My goal wasn’t to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers. I only started the company when I realized I could be an engineer forever.”

What would you ask Woz if given the opportunity?

“Woz, what first sparked your interest in engineering?”
“Hey Woz, how did you come up with …

TechCrunch reported yesterday that Apple has acquired FoundationDB. And while I didn’t see any mention if this news on the FoundationDB website, they do have an announcement saying: “We have made the decision to evolve our company mission and, as of today, we will no longer offer downloads.”

This is an unfortunate development – I have been watching FoundationDB technology for years and was always impressed in terms of its performance and features. I was particularly impressed by their demo at last year’s Percona Live MySQL and Expo. Using their Intel NUC-based Cluster, I remember Ori Herrnstadt showing me how FoundationDB handles single-node …