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  • YouTube – Improving Performance by Running MySQL Multiple Times

    Feels like a long time ago, but my talk at the MySQL User’s Conference back in April 09 on running MySQL Multiple Times to get better performance is now available online at YouTube. The original PDF of the presentation is available here. View it h…

  • Dojo examples from UC2009

    I know, I know, loads of people have been waiting for these… So here we go, I’ve finally sorted a downloaded version of the Dojo examples from the presentation I provided at the MySQL Users Conference 2009. There are three examples: The auto-pag…

  • Improved Indices for MySQL Reference Manual

    I continue to try and find new ways to make it easier for people to get into the right place in the documentation for the information you are looking for. This week, I’ve added some experimental custom indexes. These use information from the ID ma…

  • MySQL 5.1 in OpenSolaris

    If you’ve attended just one of my recent talks, either at the UC, LOSUG or MySQL University, you should know that MySQL 5.1.30 will be in the next official drop of OpenSolaris. In fact, you can find MySQL 5.1 in the current pre-release builds – I …

  • Quick Access to CommunityOne Deep Dives

    So the CommunityOne conference is coming soon, and earlier this week I finished up the final part of the MySQL/DTrace presentation and preparation so I’m all ready to go. Want to come along? Get quick access to the Deep Dives: Online Event Registr…

  • MySQL Docs Updates and Stats

    We got an interesting question on the documentation list the other day, which basically asked if we provided a service that listed changes to specific pages in the manual. While I like the idea of such a service, the mechanics of making such a ser…

  • Speaking at CommunityOne West

    Sorry for the (relatively) short notice, but I will be talking at Sun’s CommunityOne conference in San Francisco on June 1st. I’ll be talking about, and demonstrating, the DTrace probes we have put into MySQL in a joint presentation with Robert Lo…

  • Solaris 10 Boot Failure

    OK, so this has now bitten me twice on a new install. Basically, put Solaris 10u5 on certain machines, and it will work fine until you edit the /etc/vfstab and forget to add a terminating newline to one of your entries. Upon reboot you will get so…

  • Cloud Application Architectures

    I’ve just received a copy of Cloud Application Architectures by George Reese for review, and my first glance through it this morning I have so far been very impressed by what I’ve read. It’s in a nice conversational style, and so far the technical…

  • Using MySQL with the Dojo Toolkit

    The presentation file for the Dojo toolkit presentation at the Users Conference is now available. You can find it on the conference session page. I’ll be uploading the example scripts that work to produce the examples I gave once I’m back in the o…