Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean commodo ligula eget dolor. Aenean massa. Related posts:Tom Mullahy Jon Walseth Don Coffin … [Read more...]
OurSQL Episode 49: Stalking MySQL
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 calculations of thresholds based on status and system variables, and items from the … [Read more...]
OurSQL Episode 48: Percona Live NYC 2011
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 … [Read more...]
OurSQL Episode 47: Replication logs and objects
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 … [Read more...]
Amazon RDS for Oracle: First Impressions
On Tuesday, Amazon announced availability of an Oracle version of their Relational Database Service (RDS). RDS is one of Amazon’s cloud services. You can think of it as ”database as a service.” Amazon provides a running database, storage, horsepower and a variety management tasks. And all you have to do is store you data in it. … [Read more...]
OurSQL Episode 46: It’s About Time
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 time types TIMESTAMP properties and how it is stored in UTC transparently in the … [Read more...]
OurSQL Episode 45: Hackathon Success! (MySQL -> MongoDB replication)
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 team, who talked about getting replication from MySQL to MongoDB working via Tungsten Replicator … [Read more...]
DBD::mysql 4.019 released
Dear Perl and MySQL enthusiasts, I’m pleased to announce the release of DBD::mysql 4.019. I’m especially pleased because there are some new enhancements and features that have been provided by contributions from the community: * Asynchronous support, added by Rob Hoelz. This is a new feature to DBD::mysql that takes advantage of … [Read more...]
OurSQL Episode 44: Elemental Replication (Tungsten, that is)
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, including high availability and replication to systems other than MySQL. Tungsten Replicator won … [Read more...]
IOUG MySQL Council, Collaborate and MySQL CE
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...]
Determining optimal Amazon S3 transfer parallelism
Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) is a robust, inexpensive and highly-available internet data storage service. At Blue Gecko, we occasionally help our customers design and implement S3-based backup strategies. Compared to conventional off site tape vaulting services, the advantages of vaulting database and other backups to S3 are many. … [Read more...]
EC2 outage reactions showcase widespread ignorance regarding the cloud
Amazon EC2′s high-profile outage in the US East region has taught us a number of lessons. For many, the take-away has been a realization that cloud-based systems (like conventionally-hosted systems) can fail. Of course, we knew that, Amazon knew that, and serious companies who performed serious availability engineering before deploying to … [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...]
Narada 0.202 (plus AMI!) released
I’m pleased to announce the release of the Narada Search Engine Application, version 0.202, as well as a ready-to-use AMI, ami-140df07d. The source release can be found at Launchpad – lp:narada and and a packaged version at http://patg.net/downloads/narada-0.202.tar.gz What is Narada? Narada is a search engine application. It does have … [Read more...]
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