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Replicating multiple masters to one slave
As standard, MySQL allows replication from one master to multiple slaves, and that is a common scale-out scenario, but there have been a few comments recently, and some longer standing queries about having a setup that works the other way round, t…
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MySQL University: Checking Threading and Locking With Helgrind
This Thursday, Stewart Smith will give a MySQL University session: Checking Threading and Locking With Helgrind Note that this particular session starts 9:00 BST / 10:00 CET / 18:00 Brisbane/Melbourne Stewart is always enjoyable to listen to, both…
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How to analyze memory leaks on Windows
We use valgrind to find memory leaks in MySQL on Linux. The tool is a convenient, and often enlightening way of finding out where the real and potential problems are location. On Windows, you dont have valgrind, but Microsoft do provide a free nat…
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Book: Intellectual Property and Open Source – the solution to IANAL
I’m reading Intellectual Property and Open Source by Van Lindberg at the moment, and despite being about a relatively dry topic, I must admit that it’s a fascinating read. Van Lindberg introduces the book by talking about the comments that end up …
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MySQL University – quick survey
MySQL University has been running for the last 18 months, and we’ve covered a wide range of topics, from the internals of MySQL right up to Amazon’s EC2, using MySQL in the Solaris/OpenSolaris Webstack and a description of the forthcoming MySQL On…
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Podcast Producer Variables
The first of a new series of articles on using and extending the functionality of Apple’s Podcast Producer has just been published (see Podcast Producer: Anatomy of a Workflow). One of the things that you might find useful when working with Workfl…
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MySQL on i5/OS
i5/OS doesn’t immediately strike you as the most natural environment for running MySQL, but in fact, there some advantages and benefits of making use of the hardware and i5/OS environment. The System i environment used with i5/OS is scalable, and …
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MySQL Topics now added directly to the reference manual
Last week I mentioned that we had added a topic-based interface to the MySQL documentation to make it easier to go to specific topics, identified either by your needs, user type or technology. It occurred to me at the end of the week that the info…
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Podcast Producer: Anatomy of a Workflow
The first in a new series of articles about Podcast Producer has been published. These are for the Apple Developer site, and I’m hoping that they will dig deeper into the workings and management of the system which is part of Leopard Server. The f…
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General Purpose vs Specialized systems
Yesterday at Computerworld I talked about the X4150 and how it fits into a general purpose piece of hardware that can easily be redeployed and reused. Interestingly I’ve just found this item in my blog post queue from way back in 2006, Jonathan Sc…