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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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MySQL University: Checking Threading and Locking With Helgrind
This Thursday, Stewart Smith will give a MySQL University session: Checking Threading and Locking With Helgrind Note that this particular session starts 9:00 BST / 10:00 CET / 18:00 Brisbane/Melbourne Stewart is always enjoyable to listen to, both…
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How to analyze memory leaks on Windows
We use valgrind to find memory leaks in MySQL on Linux. The tool is a convenient, and often enlightening way of finding out where the real and potential problems are location. On Windows, you dont have valgrind, but Microsoft do provide a free nat…
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Podcast Producer Variables
The first of a new series of articles on using and extending the functionality of Apple’s Podcast Producer has just been published (see Podcast Producer: Anatomy of a Workflow). One of the things that you might find useful when working with Workfl…
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MySQL on i5/OS
i5/OS doesn’t immediately strike you as the most natural environment for running MySQL, but in fact, there some advantages and benefits of making use of the hardware and i5/OS environment. The System i environment used with i5/OS is scalable, and …
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MySQL Topics now added directly to the reference manual
Last week I mentioned that we had added a topic-based interface to the MySQL documentation to make it easier to go to specific topics, identified either by your needs, user type or technology. It occurred to me at the end of the week that the info…
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MySQL 5.1 Cluster DBA Certification Study Guide now everywhere
If you want to get certified for MySQL Cluster then there is only one guide that you need, the MySQL 5.1 Cluster DBA Certification Study Guide. Since the move to Sun, we have changed the method that you can get the title. You can now order a ‘prin…
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Wanted: GUI developer for MySQL Enterprise Monitor
One of the great things about working on great products is that you get to meet such intelligent and interesting people. I can apply that to everybody that I work with, but there are some teams where not only are they working on great products, th…
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MySQL Documentation by Topic
The MySQL documentation is huge. In fact, it can sometimes be difficult to get a handle on exactly how big. The main reference manual is large by most documentation standards, the MySQL 6.0 reference manual is almost 2400 pages in length now. Keep…
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Solaris 08/07 impressions
New versions of Solaris keep coming out apace, and with each new version we see improvements and enhancements, both from the core Solaris group and from the cooperation with the OpenSolaris teams. Solaris 10 8/07 came out last year, but it takes a…