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Slides of my FrOSCon presentations
August 25 2008
Thanks to all who attended my talks at FrOSCon 2008. It was a pleasurable experience, as it has always been in the past.The slides of my two sessions are published in the MySQL Presentation RepositoryMySQL Community How ToMySQL Sandbox read moreAugust 25 2008
A picture says it all. Special offers at a FrOSCon books booth. For how long is an IT book in its prime? read moreAugust 21 2008
MySQL will be well represented at FrOSCon 2008. August 23-24 2008.This will be my third presence there as a speaker. I fondly remember the pleasant experience of the 2006 and 2007 editions. This time, MySQL is also a sponsor. In addition to having 5 speakers from the database group, we… read moreAugust 11 2008
At OSCON, Sun had a huge booth. I mentioned that before, and I was part of the show. During booth opening hours, members of all Sun communities (Open Solaris, Glassfish, OpenJDK, MySQL) addressed the audience with technical presentations. I was very impressed by these two booklets that were given away… read moreNew Community release - MySQL 5.0.67
August 08 2008
After a long delay, a new community binary has been released. MySQL 5.0.67 has reached the mirrors and it's ready for download. The list of changes is quite long and includes a tiny incompatible change. Every version of MySQL ships with sample option files, called my-small.cnf, my-large.cnf, my-huge.cnf.cnf. In this version, these… read moreEditing a dump file from the airport
August 05 2008
Keith Murphy asks if you have ever edited your dump files before feeding them to the database. And he recommends using sed. This reminds me of a war story, when I was consulting in Milan. The customer needed, among other things, to import a huge text file (created by a… read moreThe database hacker glossary and other (funny) stories
August 03 2008
Every year, MySQL engineers gather together for the developers meeting. It's the time of the highest productivity and fun at the same time. It starts usually by performing an old play, Guess who I am, featuring 100 employees who know each other by name but not by face. At every… read moreDon't guess. Test! - A sample database with test suite
July 29 2008
Some time ago, with the help of Patrick Crews, I built a sample database for testing.Now this database is published as a stand-alone project on Launchpad.What's special about it?Unlike the previous databases used in MySQL documentation and tutorials, this database has some weight. The total data is over 160 MB,… read moreJuly 29 2008
There was a huge Sun booth at OSCON 2008. During opening hours, there were always sessions at the booth, with well known open source presenters.After hours, you had the choice between socializing on your own or go to the organized events or go to the BoFs, like this one, where… read moreJuly 26 2008
Julian Cash is well known, among other things, for being the photographer of the open source communities, as you can see from his photo stream, or this picture of his newest book.For more books, you can look at The human creativity project. At OSCON 2008, participants could attach one or… read moreOSCON 2008 - MySQL Proxy - from architecture to implementation
July 24 2008
The presentation about MySQL Proxy at OSCON 2008 is over.Here are the slides.Thanks to my co-presenter Ronald Bradford and to all the participants. If you have more questions about the session, please use this blog's comments. read moreSome quirks of circular and row-based replication
July 21 2008
One of the new features introduced by MySQL 5.1 is row-based replication.Unlike the classic statement-based replication, used in MySQL up to version 5.0, row-based replication transfers the data instead of the statement used to create it.If you want to have a taste of row-based replication, you can do some experiments… read moreJuly 16 2008
Going to OSCON? Sun Microsystems is a sponsor, and has a large booth area, all dedicated to you. It is an unusual way of using open space. We welcome all visitors and encourage them to participate in our activities. There are presentations at almost any time, given by the makers… read moreJuly 14 2008
The MySQL community is mobilizing to help a 2 year old boy who is at grave risk of dying. The son of Andrii Nikitin, MySQL Support engineer, needs a bone marrow transplant to survive. Online donations are the fastest way of helping this unfortunate kid. His father is doing whatever it takes to… read moreProxy webinar - slides, script, FAQ
July 09 2008
We did it. Designing Scalable Architectures with MySQL Proxy was delivered successfully, with over 150 attendees.There is a large number of questions that were asked during the session, and you can find them in MySQL Proxy FAQ.The slides, with the highly entertaining images used by John Loehrer to illustrate his… read more
