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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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MySQL Documentation Myths
There are a few myths surrounding the MySQL documentation and how it works, and I thought I’d try and dispel some of those myths if I can. If you have any more questions or misunderstandings you want clarified, let me know. Myth: MySQL Documentati…
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DimDim and MySQL University
Stop the press! My boss, Stefan Hinz, has just started blogging, with his first post here: Using NetBeans with MySQL. So who is he? Well, Stefan is the guy that keeps the rest of us in the docs team in check and makes sure we do what we’re asked, …
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Using the MySQL Doc source tree
I’ve mentioned a number of times that the documentation repositories that we use to build the docs are freely available, and so they are, but how do you go about using them? More and more people are getting interested in being able to work with th…
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MySQL on Solaris at the MySQL European Customer Conference
I’m speaking at the MySQL European Customer Conference this week (Thursday, 23rd), on the topic of the best deployment practices for using MySQL on Solaris. I’ll be covering a number of topics, including: Overview of MySQL availability on Solaris …
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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 …