I’ve had a week to think about and listen to the varying feedback around the O’Reilly MySQL and Collaborate conferences. There are many good points in the conversation I’ve been listening to. In particular, Baron Schwarz reminds everyone that the O’Reilly Conference brings together a unique cohort once a year that everyone … [Read more...]
Remote DBA for Drizzle
This morning at the MySQL User Conference and Expo, we’re excited to be included in Brian Aker’s keynote “The State of Drizzle” as one of the first organization to offer support for Drizzle now that it has reached GA with the release of Drizzle 7. Brian Aker is the CTO of Data Differential and is the lead developer for the … [Read more...]
Blue Gecko at the 2011 MySQL Conference
Hello to those of you who are in Santa Clara! Patrick Galbraith and I will be here this week, speaking and glad handing. You can find us both in the Attendee Directory and identify either or both of us as someone you’d like to meet. Patrick’s Sessions are: 5:15pm Wednesday – Perl programming with MySQL and Drizzle 11:55am … [Read more...]
MySQL Council activities and presence at Collaborate and MySQL Conference
In the land of the MySQL council, the IOUG has created a survey asking for community feedback on the future of the council and the IOUG’s programming for MySQL. This is an excellent opportunity for us to shape how the largest independent user group supporting Oracle technologies helps our community grow and work with Oracle going … [Read more...]
IOUG’s MySQL Council statement on public bug database uses
Being a MySQL Council member is something that takes up some of my time, but what I get in return is to help the community address issues in with Oracle when there is a lack of communication or understanding. The council drafted a statement late last week after Mark Callaghan’s post “Where have all the bugs gone?” and has reached … [Read more...]
Ninja tricks in top!
One of our senior MySQL DBAs, Mike Hamrick, wasn’t feeling well this week and so stayed home from the office. Instead of actually resting, produced this video about reading top output! I leave it to you all to watch and learn from our local tool tip pro. And, feel better Mike! Related posts:Introducing the Bluegecko MySQL Training … [Read more...]
OurSQL update and recording day!
The OurSQL podcasts will eventually make it into the Blue Gecko blog. But, in the mean time, I’d like to summarize what Sheeri Cabral and I have been getting up to. As I mentioned in the OurSQL revival post we are working to bring you a podcast every week about something technical or community related. Since mid-December, we’ve … [Read more...]
2011 MySQL community dinner (west) at the O’Reilly MySQL Conference
This year’s facts: What: MySQL community dinner (west) Who: me, you, and many MySQL community members When: Monday, April 11th – Meet at 6:30 at the Hyatt Santa Clara or at 7 pm at the restaurant Where: Pedro’s Restaurant and Cantina – 3935 Freedom Circle, Santa Clara, CA 95054 How: Please RSVP and share this invitation with the community. I … [Read more...]
MySQL Gotchas on Debian (and Ubuntu)
Blue Gecko works with clients who run many different operating systems. Our preference generally is RedHat Enterprise Linux or CentOS, but we have customers who range far and wide from there including Solaris, Windows, SuSE, and (more and more) Debian and Ubuntu. As we’ve become more familiar with Debian and Ubuntu we have found that those … [Read more...]
MySQL Editions and Support- what do I get with community?
The new licensing that was announced by Oracle earlier this month caused some FUD in the community that was addressed last week in an updated graphic comparing support and binary options and blog post from Oracle. However, one of our customers sent me this earlier this week – We are now re-evaluating whether we want to renew our MySQL … [Read more...]
Defining MySQL Backup Strategies
Backups may seem like a complicated subject, but they can be simplified into one multi variable question. What $DATA is so important that you don’t feel you could be missing it for $TTR and you can’t lose more than $RPO of it? I am using the acronyms TTR to represent the time to recovery objective and RPO to represent the recovery point … [Read more...]
Semi-Synchronous Replication in MySQL 5.5
As I was digging into the change logs for MySQL 5.5 and the replication substructure, I ran into the new features of semi-synchronous replication. This is implemented in MySQL 5.5 with the master database blocking and not returning the session after writing to the binary log unless a slave (which has also identified itself as running … [Read more...]
Database Administration Jobs and Remote DBA
I’ve been considering the fact that so many of the companies that contact us are looking for a DBA when they begin our conversations. There are a few things that go into this, I believe. MySQL DBA is a new job title. There is no long history of what skills define this role Oracle DBAs can specialize in so many things, and their depth of … [Read more...]
Open DB Conference Roundup
There are a few things to note RIGHT NOW for those of us in the world of open databases. The MySQL User Conference has opened their call for proposals and the IOUG Collaborate11 call for proposals closes tomorrow 10/1! Get your proposals in. OpenSQLCamp is 10/15 -> 17 and BG is sending Patrick as I mentioned earlier this week. If you're in … [Read more...]
OSCON, OpenWorld and MySQL community
Today’s excitement for me is the announcement that I’ll be co-chair of OSCON for 2011. This has been in the works for a chunk of the summer, and I’m super excited that I can start talking about it more publicly. Edd Dumbill and I are discussing lots of awesome sessions, tracks and foci for OSCON 2011. The call for proposals … [Read more...]