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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…
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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…
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My Sessions at UC2009
I’m speaking at the User Conference this year, with a half-day tutorial and three further sessions. The running theme is performance, both in terms of the performance of your queries, and in terms of scaling up. Scale Up, Scale Out, and High Avail…
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Diarizing – what goes around, comes around
OK, so I’ve just written about my love of Moleskines and it occurs to me that today’s bloggers (myself included) are just continuing a long tradition for some people to share their experiences. I write my memories in my Moleskines, not on a day to…
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DTrace in MySQL: Documentation and a MySQL University Session
DTrace has been something that I’ve been trying to get into the MySQL server for more than a year now. After a combination of my own patches and working with Mikael Ronstrom and Alexey Kopytov we finally have a suite of probes in MySQL 6.0.8. Bett…
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LOSUG Presentation Slides Now Available
My presentation at LOSUG on tuesday went down like a house on fire – I think it would be safe to say that the phrase for the evening was ‘It’s a cache!’. For that to make sense, you need to look at the slides, which are now available here. Attenda…
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LOSUG January: MySQL/DTrace and Memcached
Next Tuesday (27th Jan), I’ll be speaking at the London OpenSolaris User Group again. For those that follow the LOSUG meetings, we normally the third thursday of the month, but due to the overwhelming popularity of the event this month (more 100 r…
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Podcast Producer: Scheduling Podcasts
A new article in my series on getting the most out of Podcast Producer is now available, this time looking at a solution involving iCal and the command-line elements of Podcast Producer that can automate the process of recording. This can be parti…
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Podcast Producer: Publishing to YouTube
My new article at the Apple Developer Connection is now available. When creating podcasts you dont always want to publish to one of the blogs or wiki services on your Leopard Server, or to iTunes. How about posting to YouTube? From the intro: YouT…
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I love my Moleskine
Not remotely related to computing at all, but I’ve just been updating my diaries, and I use Moleskine. I go everywhere with a Moleskine of some description (they’ve recently released some really tiny notebooks, which make it easier to carry your l…