Blue Gecko has been officially recognized as an Amazon Web Services partner! Blue Gecko was an early adopter of the AWS platform for databases and database-backed applications. By deploying Oracle, Oracle E-Business Suite and MySQL infrastructures in the cloud, Blue Gecko leverages AWS to substantially improve customer IT flexibility and reduce … [Read more...]
Oracle, MySQL, MariaDB, and Drizzle. oh my.
To follow up on Chuck's post from earlier this week, I want to say that yes, on Monday morning I raced across the office to share the crazy news that Oracle is trying to buy MySQL Sun. Though, I don't remember yelling. But, I did have a real point here and that is that the numbers that he quoted are prior to the Enterprise / Community split that … [Read more...]
Oracle also acquires MySQL… right?
Yes, we all know that Oracle has acquired Sun. Or intends to. They still have to get through a few hurdles, one of which will be the SEC. My first thought upon hearing the news (delivered by Sarah, running over to the copy machine yelling, "Did you hear?! Oracle just bought Sun!!" causing me to completely jam the automatic paper feeder, and … [Read more...]
MySQL Conference in just more than a week
Alas, I won't be attending the conference but in reading the speaking schedules, I found several talks that I hope will be recorded and published later. Many are directly applicable to our customers and the work we do for them, some would tickle my inner geek and a few are super interesting for what they portend for the data management … [Read more...]
Our own Sarah Novotny is Seattle’s “Geek of the Week!”
Sarah Novotny is featured in the Seattle PI as the "Geek of the Week." We're all quite pleased with the well-seserved recognition, and hope you have a minute to check out the article. Leave a comment and let her know what you think! Nice work, Sarah! … [Read more...]
Velocity 2009
I've had the pleasure of being asked to speak at Velocity 2009 and tomorrow I go to San Francisco to participate the the Velocity Summit. I'll get to rub elbows with the cabal that is planning/producing and executing the mamouth undertaking that is running a conference. I gave four topic possibilities all focused on MySQL or 24/7 operational … [Read more...]
Using Checksums to Ensure Table Consistency in MySQL
If you're using MySQL replication, chances are your master and slave databases aren't entirely consistent. There are a number of reasons for this. Some MySQL functions like UUID() don't replicate properly with statement based replication. Poor network connectivity can sometimes result in corrupted relay logs. Misconfigured software can … [Read more...]
MySQL 5.1GA
As is usually the case with fresh versions of software, we advise clients to move forward judiciously. This release has a bit of a hubbub surrounding it on the internet regarding Monty Widenius' post titled "Oops we did it again". Monty's article is an excellent summary of what does and doesn't work as well as putting in an obligatory (though … [Read more...]
Managing databases and other stuff
Databases exist to store data. That said, a database is infrequently useful entirely on it's own. So, managing databases means that we're often interacting with applications that access that data. Some of the common applications that we work with include Oracle E-Business Suite, Tomcat, Apache and ColdFusion. We had an entertaining problem … [Read more...]
Busy couple of weeks
We've been working on lots of new customers and in our spare time writing a few scripts and white papers. I've added a link to the right to download Chuck Edwards' paper on encrypting Oracle traffic with SSH tunnels. Ed's been working hard on some handy Oracle scripts and I'll have that tarball published sometime this week. In the mean time, … [Read more...]