“Leading enterprises have a firm grasp of the technology edge that’s relevant to them. Better data analysis and disambiguation through semantics is central to how they gain competitive advantage today.”–Alan Morrison.

I have interviewed Alan Morrison, senior research fellow at PwC, Center for Technology and Innovation.
Main topic of the interview is how the Big Data market is evolving.

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Q1. How do you see the Big Data market evolving? 

Alan Morrison: We should note first of all how true Big Data and analytics methods emerged and what has been disruptive. Over the course of a decade, web companies have donated IP and millions of lines of code that serves as the foundation for what’s being built on top.  In the …

MySQL 5.7 makes secure connections easier with streamlined key generation for both MySQL Community and MySQL Enterprise, improves security by expanding support for TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2, and helps administrators assess whether clients are connecting securely or not with new visibility into connection types.  Extending this emphasis on secure connections, MySQL Server 5.7 introduces a new server-side configuration option allowing MySQL administrators the ability to restrict connections …

Hortonworks went to use the lessons to create a fresh database, partnering program, which has become called PostgreSQL. InfiniDB’s paper was likewise read and Hortonworks SQL was designed in the mid-2000s at Uppsala University. In 2010, this job was combined into an independent business. InfiniDB introduced trade management in programs, a notion which was later […]

At Etsy, we have a nice, clean, streamlined build process. We have a command for setting up RAID, and another for OS installation. OS installation comes with automagic for LDAP, Chef roles, etc.

We came across an odd scenario today when a co-worker was building a box that gave the following error:

Traceback (most recent call first): File “/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/partitioning.py”, line 1066, in allocatePartitions disklabel = disklabels[_disk.path] File “/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/partitioning.py”, line 977, in doPartitioning allocatePartitions(storage, disks, partitions, free) File “/usr/lib/anaconda/storage/partitioning.py”, line 274, in doAutoPartition exclusiveDisks=exclusiveDisks) File “/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py”, line 210, in moveStep rc = stepFunc(self.anaconda) File “/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py”, line 126, in gotoNext self.moveStep() File “/usr/lib/anaconda/dispatch.py”, line 233, in …

I really like Amazon.com and I have been a Prime member for several years. Along with millions of different items for sale, Amazon has an affiliate program, where you can earn money advertising products on your web site. When a visitor to your site clicks on a link and orders a product from Amazon, you earn a small commission on the total sale. As an affiliate, you have access to Amazon’s Product Advertising API for obtaining product information. But, you can use this information for many other purposes.

The Amazon API is like most other API’s, and their API web site provides you with code examples and explains how it all works. I am going to show you how a Perl program which you can use to access the API data and store it in a …

Dear MySQL users,

The MySQL developer tools team announces 6.3.6 as our GA release for
MySQL Workbench 6.3.

For the full list of changes in this revision, visit
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/workbench/en/changes-6-3.html

For discussion, join the MySQL Workbench Forums:
http://forums.mysql.com/index.php?152

Download MySQL Workbench 6.3.6 GA now, for Windows, Mac OS X 10.9+,
Oracle Linux 6 and 7, Fedora 22 and Fedora 23, Ubuntu 14.04 and
Ubuntu 15.10 or sources, from:

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/tools/workbench/

The Call for Papers is over !

Thank you to all of you who have submitted a talk for the Fosdem 2016 MySQL & Friends devroom !

We received 40 talks that will be sent to the committee for review. Then as soon as the talks we be rated, we will contact all the submitters to let them know if their talk(s) was approved or not.

Be patient ! ;-)

Thank you again, this will be an awesome event !

Thanks to google’s insatiable appetite for scanning and offering documents, you can take a trip back to a 1994 issue of Computer World magazine, read about Windows NT, cc:Mail, pentium processors, and see an ad for Oracle CDE, featuring yours truly looking over his shoulder.  (Remember Oracle CDE?)  This was my first Oracle DBA gig, and the team received a …

http://www.itnews.com/article/3004953/use-oracles-database-watch-out-for-this-dec-1-deadline.html

Companies that use a standard edition of Oracle’s database software should be aware that a rapidly approaching deadline could mean increased licensing costs.

Speaking from experience (at both MySQL AB and Open Query), typically, licensing/pricing changes such as these act as a motivator for migrations.

Migrations are a nuisance (doesn’t matter from/to what platform) and are best avoided as they’re intrinsically painful, costly and time-consuming. Smart companies know this.

When asked in generic terms, we generally recommend against migrations (even to MySQL/MariaDB) for the above-mentioned practical and business reasons. There are also technical reasons. I’ll list a …

Adding good content to Twitter can be a pain. I can’t do it during working hours, and I don’t have much time at night. But, the more content you have, the more followers you can gain, and the more your original tweets can be seen (hopefully). I have written several posts about using the latest Perl-Twitter API – Net::Twitter::Lite::WithAPIv1_1, so you might want to check these out as well.

– Use MySQL and Perl to automatically find, follow and unfollow twitter users

– Using Perl to retrieve direct messages from Twitter, insert messages into a MySQL database and then …