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MySQL Conf 2009 Preview: Scalability and HA Tutorial
Like most people, and with just over a week to go before the conference, I’m putting the finishing touchs on my various presentations. First up for me, on Monday afternoon, is my tutorial: Scale Up, Scale Out, and High Availability: Solutions and …
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Reverse Changelog
One of the pain points of upgrading any software package is knowing which version to upgrade to when the time comes. With software that is frequently updated, like MySQL, choosing a version that provides new features and addresses issues you are a…
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MySQL University Needs You!!
MySQL University keeps rolling along. We’ve had some fantastic sessions just recently (not including my own, of course!), such as Lenz’s presentation of backing up MySQL with filesystem snapshots, Allan Packer’s presentation on the optimization of…
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LOSUG Presentation Slides Now Available
My presentation at LOSUG on tuesday went down like a house on fire – I think it would be safe to say that the phrase for the evening was ‘It’s a cache!’. For that to make sense, you need to look at the slides, which are now available here. Attenda…
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I love my Moleskine
Not remotely related to computing at all, but I’ve just been updating my diaries, and I use Moleskine. I go everywhere with a Moleskine of some description (they’ve recently released some really tiny notebooks, which make it easier to carry your l…
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Feeding Query Analyzer from DTrace
One of the new features in the new release of MySQL Enterprise Monitor is Query Analyzer. As the name suggests, the Query Analyzer provides information about the queries that are running on your server, the response times and row and byte statisti…
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MySQL on OpenSolaris Presentation/Transcript Now Available
As I mentioned earlier this week, I did a presentation on MySQL in OpenSolaris today. The presentation (audio and slides) is now viewable online (and downloadable), and you can also get hold of the transcript of the questions: here (or download). …
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MySQL University: MySQL and OpenSolaris
On Thursday, November 13, 2008 (14:00 UTC / 14:00 BST / 15:00 CET), I’ll be presenting a MySQL University session on MySQL and OpenSolaris. The presentation will be similar to the presentation I did at the London OpenSolaris Users Group in July, y…
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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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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…