In a nutshell: What’s New in MySQL 5.1.
Release notes: Changes in release 5.1.x (Production).
And yes, very early on (at about two minutes in), I talk about my take on Monty’s controversial post at Oops, we did it again.
To play the video directly, go to http://technocation.org/node/663/play. To download the 146 Mb video to your computer for offline playback, go to http://technocation.org/node/663/download. The slides …
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Followers of my blogs and talks know that I am partial to the Federated engine. Not much as a normal way of storing data, but more as an auxiliary device to create innovative schemes. A few years ago I wrote an article, Federated: the missing manual where I listed most of the gotchas that you can meet when using the Federated engine. This article alone would be enough to discourage you from using Federated in production. If you attempt to use a Federated table like a normal one, your server will suffer, and possibly crash. |
Add the sad fact that …
Yup, the presentation slides as well as the scripts are now
available online on the conference
website.
The stuff you will find in there:
The initial release of the FederatedX Pluggable Storage Engine
for MySQL is now
available. I developed the Federated Storage Engine when I worked
at MySQL,
and really saw a lot of potential with it. However, there were
many other
projects that I had to give attention to, and many features and
bug fixes that
users wanted didn't come into fruition because of the busy
schedule. I left
MySQL a year ago to pursue an opportunity with Grazr what has
kept me equally
busy. However, I have made a resolution this year to give some
projects that I
have wanted to improve the attention that they need. I still see
a lot of
potential with the "federated" concept.
Federated as it is isn't what many people expect it to be. IBM
for instance,
has a federation as a very integral part of DB2. The Federated
Storage Engine
is a proof-of-concept storage engine -- not to say it doesn't …