Category: General

  • Presentations now on MySQL Conf Site Too

    So I talked to the wonderful JB from O’Reilly who is responsible for all sorts of parts of the conference, and she’s now enabled my presentations on the MySQL Conference Presentations page. While you’re there downloading mine, make sure you go and…

  • UC2009: Scale Up, Scale Out and High Availability: Solutions and Combinations

    My presentation slides for the Scale Up, Scale Out and High Availability tutorial here at the MySQL Users Conference are now available for download: Scale Up, Scale Out and High Availability: Solutions and Combinations These have been on the MySQL…

  • MySQL Conf 2009 Preview: Scalability and HA Tutorial

    Like most people, and with just over a week to go before the conference, I’m putting the finishing touchs on my various presentations. First up for me, on Monday afternoon, is my tutorial: Scale Up, Scale Out, and High Availability: Solutions and …

  • MySQL Option/Variable changes in the docs

    In amongst the other changes I made last week to provide the Reverse Changelog, I’ve also added some additional output to the Options/Variable chapter. Basically, for the OptVars Dynamic Docs, we track when each option/variable had a change, eithe…

  • MySQL University: MySQL and ZFS

    I didn’t announce it last week, but I did a MySQL University presentation on using MySQL with the ZFS filesystem. ZFS is the main filesystem for Solaris/OpenSolaris and offers a number of different benefits for people using MySQL, including some i…

  • Selected MySQL Docs now at docs.sun.com

    We’ve decided to make a number of our docs available through Sun’s docs.sun.com documentation website, in addition to our main documentation site at dev.mysql.com/doc. The documentation uploaded there is only a small selection of the total documen…

  • Reverse Changelog

    One of the pain points of upgrading any software package is knowing which version to upgrade to when the time comes. With software that is frequently updated, like MySQL, choosing a version that provides new features and addresses issues you are a…

  • MySQL University Needs You!!

    MySQL University keeps rolling along. We’ve had some fantastic sessions just recently (not including my own, of course!), such as Lenz’s presentation of backing up MySQL with filesystem snapshots, Allan Packer’s presentation on the optimization of…

  • MySQL University: Developing MySQL on Solaris/OpenSolaris

    We have a MySQL University session later today, featuring me and Trond Norbye (who works on Memcached development). Ostensibly we are talking about some of the tools and environment details of developing on Solaris and OpenSolaris, but with a MySQ…

  • Problems with the CHM Refman builds

    As some of you have noticed (and reported) we are having trouble with the CHM builds we do of the various MySQL Reference Manuals. This is something that we are looking into, but the reasons and issues behind it are complex. One of the basic reaso…