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Coming from the world of selling fire trucks I’m used to selling necessary solutions to customers in need. The stakes are high. If the truck doesn’t perform best case scenario it’s a false alarm. Worst case scenario someone, many people, die.

Let me tell you a bit about fire trucks.

A lot of people think that a fire truck is a fire truck. That there is some factory where fire trucks are made, carbon copies of one another, varying only in what they carry – water, a pump, a ladder. That’s not the case. Every truck is custom engineered, designed, and manufactured from scratch. Things can go wrong. In a world where response time is everything, you don’t want something to go wrong. Not with the fire truck. Not when everything else is going …

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The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.1.4. This is a Beta release.

See the Release Notes and …

Sometimes trying to keep a post short and to the point raises other questions. Clearly, my Python-MySQL Program post over the weekend did raise a question. They were extending the query example and encountered this error:

      TypeError: range() integer end argument expected, got tuple.

That should be a straight forward error message because of two things. First, the Python built-in range() function manages a range of numbers. Second, the row returned from a cursor is actually a tuple (from relational algebra), and it may contain non-numeric data like strings and dates.

The reader was trying to dynamically navigate the number of columns in a row by using the …

As noted in an earlier post, MySQL Server 5.7 prefers and enables SSL/TLS connections by default.  That’s great and useful progress towards secure connections, but we know that not all SSL/TLS ciphers are created equal – some are older and more vulnerable.  Furthermore, some recent vulnerabilities rely on the ability to negotiate less-secure ciphers during the handshake.  Monitoring which ciphers are used can help identify connections using low-grade ciphers, but also to build an appropriate restricted cipher list.  Using improvements to PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA introduced in 5.7, you can now easily do this – and this post will show you how.

The cipher used for each TLS connection is stored in a …

One of my goals at Acmebenchmarking is make sure I'm running on hardware that is representative of real-world infrastructure, while at the same time doing it as inexpensively as possible.

To date I've been running on two custom built "desktops" (for lack of a better term). Both have an Intel Core i7 4790K processor (quad core plus hyperthreading, 4Ghz), 32GB RAM (dual channel), and a quality SSD. They are named acmebench01 and acmebench02.

Alas, it is time to expand. MUST...PURCHASE...MORE...HARDWARE!

In order to maintain the inexpensive theme I tend to buy used hardware, my goal on this purchase was to achieve many more cores and greater memory bandwidth than my existing machines can provide. Keep in mind that used hardware is great for benchmarking (and likely development and QA environments) but you might want to avoid it for production. For years now I've been purchasing used hardware …

One of the most important things in any application is having a good and well back up security mechanism that ensures the access to the site or application is well managed and controlled.

With the ASP.NET Identity provider you have a balance between customization and a good separation between the storage of the identity information and the code that implements the security system. This separation allows to have a very good customization in terms of the information that the application will store from each one of the users and roles. (more information and context here)

Here are some important features within the ASP.NET Identity provider

• A higher level of customization of the data associated with the user account.
  Developers have the facility to add or change the data stored of the user …

Folks, as usual Pythian is organizing the community dinner. After many years, food, (responsible) drinking and photos, this event has become an important moment for all of us, to know each other better, discuss and have fun.

This year is also the 20th year for MySQL so … YEAAAH let us celebrate, with more food, fun and responsible drinking.

If you had not done it yet … register yourself here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-pythian-mysql-community-pay-your-own-way-dinner-tickets-15692805604

Info about the event:

When: Tuesday April 14, 2015 – 7:00 PM at Pedro’s (You are welcome to show up later, too!)
Where: Pedro’s Restaurant and Cantina – 3935 Freedom Circle, Santa Clara, CA 95054

I know, I know … we …

I’ve started my long journey from Florianópolis, Brazil, to Santa Clara, California and I type this words while waiting for a connection flight. Next Wednesday, Daniel Guzmán Burgos and I will be presenting in the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo (PLMCE).

I’m so excited with the new MySQL 101 program that has been added to this year’s event! Along the years I’ve been working as a Support Engineer at Percona I’ve heard two very distinct types of comments amongst others from some people, customers and community in general, about PLMCE:

1) That they went and it was awesome but they found it hard to follow as most of the …

I am potentially one of the least technical people in my generation. I’m 30 and I am afraid of my cellphone, my laptop, Netflix, the microwave…. Okay, afraid is maybe a strong word, but baffled by them at the very least.

In high school, while my classmates wrote most of their papers and assignments on the computer, I insisted on writing everything out by hand and only typed it out afterwards if absolutely required. It wasn’t that I had issues with typing – my mom who worked as an administrator for many years made sure that I learned to type from a very young age and I type quickly with a reasonable amount of accuracy. I just felt that writing by hand kept me more “connected” to the words I penned. Simply, my name is Sarah and I am a Luddite.

After high school I studied journalism for a couple of years and then entered the workforce into a number of different jobs, such as in sales and marketing and it became necessary …

When I first blogged about a potential workaround for MySQL error 1070, I received a suggestion in the comments that my workaround might be a useful trick with MariaDB virtual columns or MySQL 5.7 generated columns. Although I've already blogged about a simplified version of my original workaround, the arrival of the MySQL 5.7.7 release candidate inspired me to try an even simpler implementation using generated columns.

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