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Compiling MySQL Workbench on Gentoo
The Workbench team have just announced the release of Workbench for Linux, including binary packages and source packages with instructions on how to build. I’m a Gentoo Linux user, so I prefer building from source, and you’ll need to emerge the fo…
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ZFS Replication for MySQL data
At the European Customer Conference a couple of weeks back, one of the topics was the use of DRBD. DRBD is a kernel-based block device that replicates the data blocks of a device from one machine to another. The documentation I developed for that …
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Transition to AIX from Solaris
This article, Transition to AIX from Solaris is all about moving away from Solaris to the AIX System p environment, which may sound like completely the wrong topic for here. In fact, the article contains a few interesting notes about zones and con…
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Transition to AIX from Solaris
This article, Transition to AIX from Solaris is all about moving away from Solaris to the AIX System p environment, which may sound like completely the wrong topic for here. In fact, the article contains a few interesting notes about zones and con…
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Summarizing virtualization technologies from Sun
Inspired by a recent discussion on Xen Discuss about what different virtualization solutions were available from Sun I thought I’d take the information provided by Volker A. Brandt and Bernd Schemmer and put it into a convenient table. Name Sparc …
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More Datacenters in a Container
Not exactly portable (unless you have a container lorry or ship handy), but I’d love to have one of Sun’s Sun’s Modular Datacenters available to use. The Modular Datacenter (otherwise known as Project Blackbox) squeezes 7 or 8 racks, depending on …
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Using the MySQL Doc source tree
I’ve mentioned a number of times that the documentation repositories that we use to build the docs are freely available, and so they are, but how do you go about using them? More and more people are getting interested in being able to work with th…
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MySQL on Solaris at the MySQL European Customer Conference
I’m speaking at the MySQL European Customer Conference this week (Thursday, 23rd), on the topic of the best deployment practices for using MySQL on Solaris. I’ll be covering a number of topics, including: Overview of MySQL availability on Solaris …
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Resources for Running Solaris OS on a Laptop
As Solaris gets more and more popular I’m seeing more and more people running Solaris on a laptop as their primary operating system. I’ve even got friends who have migrated over completely to Solaris from Linux. I’ve been using it for years and ma…
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Replicating multiple masters to one slave
As standard, MySQL allows replication from one master to multiple slaves, and that is a common scale-out scenario, but there have been a few comments recently, and some longer standing queries about having a setup that works the other way round, t…