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Pythian Group Blog - 9 hours ago
Recently I had an interesting issue crop up. Due to an unfortunate migration incident in which involved master/master replication and not checking to see if replication was caught up, we ended up with an infinite …
Also tagged: binary, replication, mysql, awk, mysqlbinlog, binary log, server id
Pythian Group Blog - Oct 1, 2008
The unsung heroes of InnoDB are the logfiles. They are what makes InnoDB automatic crash recovery possible. Database administrators of other DBMS may be familiar with the concept of a “redo” log. When data is changed …
Also tagged: tuning, mysql, innodb, log, redo, server variables
Pythian Group Blog - Oct 1, 2008
As I putter around the MySQL INFORMATION_SCHEMA, I am finding lots of undocumented behavior for fields that should be straightforward. For example, the VIEWS table holds information about views, and the VIEW_DEFINITION …
Also tagged: mysql, views, information schema, data dictionary
Pythian Group Blog - Oct 1, 2008
A while ago, MySQL developed a Community Contribution Agreement for community contributions to the MySQL source code. While browsing the MySQL Forge Wiki I cam across …
Also tagged: community, patch, source code, mysql, contribution, contributor, mickos
Pythian Group Blog - Sep 30, 2008
A short post to direct people’s attention to and solicit comments on the following from someone who is admittedly a hero of mine, Richard Stallman: But Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation and …
Also tagged: sql server, oracle, mysql, cloud computing
Pythian Group Blog - Sep 25, 2008
For those of you who didn’t see the Larry Ellison’s keynote here it goes courtesy to Sheeri: We cut out the HP part but I don’t think anyone will complain. It’s not the best angle but we didn’t get there early in …
Also tagged: oracle, conferences, presentations, data warehouse, keynote, storage server, oow, exadata, database machine
Pythian Group Blog - Sep 25, 2008
For those of you who didn’t see the Larry Ellison’s keynote here it goes courtesy to Sheeri: We cut out the HP part but I don’t think anyone will complain. It’s not the best angle but we didn’t get there early in …
Also tagged: oracle, conferences, presentations, data warehouse, keynote, storage server, oow, exadata, database machine
Pythian Group Blog - Sep 24, 2008
On Darrin Leboeuf’s advice, I loaded Kevin Closson’s blog, and sure enough, he had something ready to publish. It must have been KILLING Kevin to keep this a secret. It must be a huge load off to publish this thing …
Also tagged: oracle, hp, kevin closson, exabyte storage server
Pythian Group Blog - Sep 24, 2008
Announcing Oracle’s first ever hardware product. The exadata programmable storage server. Building intelligence into the storage server. Allows us to reduce the amount of data. Confirming HP is the partner …
Also tagged: oracle, exadata programmable storage server
Pythian Group Blog - Sep 24, 2008
Second product announcement: The Oracle Database Machine (in partnership with HP). Specs slides. 8 64-bit servers, 14 exadata storage servers, tons of ram. Larry: “It will hold really a lot of songs”. Three year …
Also tagged: oracle, hp, oracle database machine