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OurSQL Episode 57: Eventual Discovery part 2

podcast — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:29:42 +0000

This week we have feedback about Gazzang - Gazzang is using encryptfs for their encryption. According to their launchpad project page at https://launchpad.net/ecryptfs, "eCryptfs is a POSIX-compliant enterprise-class stacked cryptographic filesystem f... Related posts:

OurSQL Episode 56: Eventual Discovery part 1

podcast — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:32:30 +0000

This week is all about events – events in MySQL, and calls for papers for 2012 conferences.

Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo call for papers opens soon. http://www.percona.com/live/mysql-conference-2012/

A session matrix for all of the MySQL sessions at Oracle OpenWorld is at http://bit.ly/oow11mysql.

MySQL Community Reception (free, no need to be registered to Oracle OpenWorld) – Tuesday, October 4, 2011 7-9 pm at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis Foothill G. RSVP for the *free* MySQL Community Reception.

OurSQL Episode 55: MySQL Data Encryption

podcast — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:44:43 +0000

OSCon Data and OSCon videos The Technocation youtube playlist, as of the time of this publishing has 18 videos, mostly from OSCon Data, is at http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE0AEC3980A198DA0 The O'Reilly YouTube playlist, as of the time of this ... Related posts:

OurSQL Episode 54: Scaling MySQL

podcast — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:30:58 +0000

Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo event page, and Baron's announcement of the conference. Dates to keep in mind: September 1st - call for speakers opens November 1st - call for speakers closes Tuesday April 10th - Thursday April 12th This week we ... Related posts:

OurSQL Episode 53: MySQL 5.6 at OSCon Data

podcast — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 13:12:54 +0000

This week we speak with Calvin Sun, the Development Manager of the InnoDB Team, and has been working on InnoDB at MySQL and Oracle for 5 years. He mentions that not only is the InnoDB team hiring, but nobody has left the InnoDB team in several years, ... Related posts:

OurSQL Episode 52: Database Theory ABC

podcast — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 14:21:55 +0000

At this year's Open Source Bridge in Portland last month, Eric Redmond presented 'A Dozen Databases in 45 minutes'. It’s really about 20 minutes of theory and 25 minutes of the dozen databases, so for this first of a 2-part series, we present the th... Related posts:

OurSQL Episode 51: Data Infrastructure at OSCon Data

podcast — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:57:19 +0000

Strata (Big Data Conference) - Sept 19-23 in NYC http://strataconf.com/stratany2011 - the call for proposals is still open until July 15th. OSCon, the Open Source Convention, is Jul 25 - Thu Jul 29th Co-located this year: OSCon Data OSCon Java OSCon Da... Related posts:

OurSQL Episode 50: MySQL at Facebook, Current and Future

podcast — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:20:46 +0000

This week we post the audio from the closing keynote of Percona Live by Harrison Fisk of Facebook, "MySQL at Facebook, Current and Future". There is no ear candy this week. Related posts:

OurSQL Episode 49: Stalking MySQL

podcast — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 14:18:37 +0000

Reminder: Due to busy summer conference schedules, we are going to be publishing the podcast every other week. This week we talk about a monitoring plugin from PalominoDB that uses caching (like the cacti templates) and allow for arbitrary calculation... Related posts:

OurSQL Episode 48: Percona Live NYC 2011

podcast — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 23:44:10 +0000

This week we have feedback from Percona Live in NYC last Thursday. We talk with:

Chander Kant of Zmanda, talking about the fact that Zmanda Backup Recovery now officially supports the Percona patched binary of MySQL.
Barry Leung of CafeMom.com who talked about all the stuff he’d learned during the day, including “How to use MySQL and DTrace on Linux” and the new mk-tcp-model.

Patrick Galbraith of BlueGecko talked about his talk, “The Building Blocks of Scaling: Drizzle/MySQL, Memcached, Sphinx, and Gearman”, backups, FLUSH ENGINE ____ LOGS, and covering indexes.

OurSQL Episode 47: Replication logs and objects

podcast — Mon, 30 May 2011 20:20:11 +0000

Feedback: Via Henrik Ingo
– Drizzle has microsecond granularity for timestamp. MariaDB just
developed a patch for that, in the 5.3 tree.

http://docs.drizzle.org/date_time_data_types.html
http://kb.askmonty.org/search/?q=microsecond
http://kb.askmonty.org/v/what-is-mariadb-53
editors note: updated with a specific link from Henrik

More Replication

Purging binary logs:
manual:
PURGE BINARY LOGS TO ‘mysql-bin.12345’;
PURGE BINARY LOGS BEFORE ‘datetime’; (can use string or date expression, like NOW()-interval 5 DAY)
Can also say “PURGE MASTER LOGS”

OurSQL Episode 46: It’s About Time

podcast — Sat, 21 May 2011 18:29:53 +0000

This week we talk about time formats and time zones in MySQL - including how changing the system time changes TIMESTAMP values but not DATETIME values. We also talk about how to handle and store microseconds in MySQL. From the MySQL manual: date and t... Related posts:

OurSQL Episode 45: Hackathon Success! (MySQL -> MongoDB replication)

podcast — Fri, 13 May 2011 14:34:15 +0000

At Open Database Camp in Sardinia last week, there was a hackfest to try to get replication working from MySQL to MongoDB. In only 2 hours and 45 minutes, a small group of hackers did it! This week I interview Flavio Percoco, the MongoDB guru on the ... Related posts:

OurSQL Episode 44: Elemental Replication (Tungsten, that is)

podcast — Fri, 06 May 2011 08:35:34 +0000

Last week's podcast, containing an overview of replication This week we have Robert Hodges, CEO of Continuent, talking about the Tungsten replicator, which has an open source component with global transaction id's and can be used for many features, inc... Related posts:

Blue Gecko at the 2011 MySQL Conference

snovotny — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 21:01:09 +0000

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 Thursday – Narada: using Gearman, Sphinx, Memcached, Drizzle and PHP to build a search application

I’ll be speaking in Wednesday night’s Ignite MySQLconf and at:

10:50am Thursday – MySQL replication – all data everywhere, is it a good idea?

And, I believe we’ll both be at the MySQL Community Dinner tonight. I’m looking forward to seeing many familiar and lots of new faces. I’ll even have my recorder with me to capture sound bites for the OurSQL podcast. See you at Pedro’s!