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Multiple VCS Updates and Cleanups
I spend a lot of time updating a variety of different repositories of different varieties and denominations, and I hate having to do that all by hand – I’d rather just go up into a top-level directory and say update-all and let a script work out w…
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Feeding Query Analyzer from DTrace
One of the new features in the new release of MySQL Enterprise Monitor is Query Analyzer. As the name suggests, the Query Analyzer provides information about the queries that are running on your server, the response times and row and byte statisti…
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Podcast Producer: Using the Command Line
The next article in my series on using Podcast Producer is now available. Podcast Producer: Using the Command Line looks at the different command-line tools that are available for interacting with the Podcast Producer system. The Server Administra…
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MySQL on OpenSolaris Presentation/Transcript Now Available
As I mentioned earlier this week, I did a presentation on MySQL in OpenSolaris today. The presentation (audio and slides) is now viewable online (and downloadable), and you can also get hold of the transcript of the questions: here (or download). …
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MySQL University: MySQL and OpenSolaris
On Thursday, November 13, 2008 (14:00 UTC / 14:00 BST / 15:00 CET), I’ll be presenting a MySQL University session on MySQL and OpenSolaris. The presentation will be similar to the presentation I did at the London OpenSolaris Users Group in July, y…
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Compiling MySQL Workbench on Gentoo
The Workbench team have just announced the release of Workbench for Linux, including binary packages and source packages with instructions on how to build. I’m a Gentoo Linux user, so I prefer building from source, and you’ll need to emerge the fo…
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ZFS Replication for MySQL data
At the European Customer Conference a couple of weeks back, one of the topics was the use of DRBD. DRBD is a kernel-based block device that replicates the data blocks of a device from one machine to another. The documentation I developed for that …
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MySQL on Solaris Best Practices Presentation
A couple of weeks ago I was at the MySQL European Customer Conference in London, where I was presenting my talk on deploying MySQL on Solaris best practices. You can download a copy of the presentation here: MySQL on Solaris Best Practices. I cove…
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Transition to AIX from Solaris
This article, Transition to AIX from Solaris is all about moving away from Solaris to the AIX System p environment, which may sound like completely the wrong topic for here. In fact, the article contains a few interesting notes about zones and con…
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Transition to AIX from Solaris
This article, Transition to AIX from Solaris is all about moving away from Solaris to the AIX System p environment, which may sound like completely the wrong topic for here. In fact, the article contains a few interesting notes about zones and con…