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The Southern California branch of the MySQL Campus Tour is almost over. At the USC, attendance was very good, and even better was the enthusiasm and the participation we met. The meeting didn't start well. Our hotel is 11 miles away from the USC campus, and we figured out that heading to the campus 1 hour before the planned time ought to be enough. After 65 minutes, we had done exactly 7 miles, in one of the worst traffic jams that I have ever seen, but the locals tell me that it's pretty standard stuff down here. Anyway, we started 20 minutes later than expected, and we were pleasantly surprised that nobody had left, and a faithful audience had been waiting … |
Apr
17
2009
Apr
16
2009
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The second leg of the Southern California MySQL Campus Tour was at UCLA. There was less attendance than Cal Poly. Only 22 brave souls who endured a lengthy session with a long tail of Q&A. The excitement came on my way back to my hotel, 25 miles from the campus. Distances have a different meaning here. A few dozen miles is just a tiny portion of the town, and so I found myself once more driving the endless highways of Los Angeles. |
When I was almost home, I saw all the cars in front of me stopping, for what I …
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Apr
16
2009
We’re having a Drizzle Developer Day just after the MySQL Conference and Expo next week. You don’t have to be attending the conference to come to the Drizzle Developer Day. Just bring your enthusiasm for free databases, Drizzle and good software. Spaces are limited, so head on over to the signup page and fill in your name if you haven’t already
If coming from the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara (where the MySQL Conference and Expo is), at least I will be driving from there, so let me know if you want a lift.
Apr
15
2009
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The MySQL Campus Tour 2009 started very well at
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA. Despite the warm day, which would have tempted many attendees to desert the conference and go to the nearby beaches, there was a full room, with 82 people, many of them standing. The presentation was appreciated (and so was the pizza that Sun had delivered to the classroom). I did the main part, while Sheeri was actively contributing with witty and informational remarks. |
Most notable, after the session, we continued the cultural
exchange to a local restaurant that bears my name (correctly
spelled!), where this heap of bread caught my eye. Thanks to …
Apr
14
2009
Sure, you've heard it before: [some company's logo] has a new MySQL backup tool that promises to solve all of your data recovery needs. The good news is most of these tools work pretty well. However, they tend to suffer from a similar set of limitations. Most require sophisticated infrastructures or complex setup and maintenance and can become a resource drain for some organizations. You're probably wondering, "Why can't someone build a fully automated MySQL backup solution that you can just turn on and forget?"
I am happy to say that the MySQL Developers at Sun are doing just that. In fact, a prototype will be demonstrated at the 2009 MySQL Users' Conference that will show the feasibility of a fully automated MySQL backup and recovery tool. It's being called the MySQL Time Machine and (with all due respect to all vendors with products of similar names) it allows you to recover your data using a datetime value. How cool is that? Even MySQL …
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Apr
14
2009
I introduced Olio a little while ago as a
toolkit to help web developers and deployers as well as
performance/operations engineers. Olio
includes a web2.0 application as well as the necessary software
required to drive load against it. Today, we are showcasing the
first major deployment of Olio on Sun's newest Intel Nehalem
based systems - the SunFire
X2270 and the SunFire X4270. We tested 10,000 concurrent
users (with a database of 1 million users) using over 1TB of
storage in the unstructured object store.
The diagram below shows the configuration we tested.
The Olio/PHP web application was deployed on two X2270 systems.
Since these systems …
Apr
14
2009
Sure, you've heard it before: [some company's logo] has a new MySQL backup tool that promises to solve all of your data recovery needs. The good news is most of these tools work pretty well. However, they tend to suffer from a similar set of limitations. Most require sophisticated infrastructures or complex setup and maintenance and can become a resource drain for some organizations. You're probably wondering, "Why can't someone build a fully automated MySQL backup solution that you can just turn on and forget?"
I am happy to say that the MySQL Developers at Sun are doing just that. In fact, a prototype will be demonstrated at the 2009 MySQL Users' Conference that will show the feasibility of a fully automated MySQL backup and recovery tool. It's being called the MySQL Time Machine and (with all due respect to all vendors with products of similar names) it allows you to recover your data using a datetime value. How cool is that? Even MySQL …
[Read more]
Apr
14
2009
Sure, you've heard it before: [some company's logo] has a new MySQL backup tool that promises to solve all of your data recovery needs. The good news is most of these tools work pretty well. However, they tend to suffer from a similar set of limitations. Most require sophisticated infrastructures or complex setup and maintenance and can become a resource drain for some organizations. You're probably wondering, "Why can't someone build a fully automated MySQL backup solution that you can just turn on and forget?"
I am happy to say that the MySQL Developers at Sun are doing just that. In fact, a prototype will be demonstrated at the 2009 MySQL Users' Conference that will show the feasibility of a fully automated MySQL backup and recovery tool. It's being called the MySQL Time Machine and (with all due respect to all vendors with products of similar names) it allows you to recover your data using a datetime value. How cool is that? Even MySQL …
[Read more]
Apr
14
2009
I introduced Olio a little while ago as a
toolkit to help web developers and deployers as well as
performance/operations engineers. Olio
includes a web2.0 application as well as the necessary software
required to drive load against it. Today, we are showcasing the
first major deployment of Olio on Sun's newest Intel Nehalem
based systems - the SunFire
X2270 and the SunFire X4270. We tested 10,000 concurrent
users (with a database of 1 million users) using over 1TB of
storage in the unstructured object store.
The diagram below shows the configuration we tested.
The Olio/PHP web application was deployed on two X2270 systems.
Since these systems …
Apr
14
2009
I introduced Olio a little while ago as a toolkit to
help web developers and deployers as well as
performance/operations engineers. Olio
includes a web2.0 application as well as the necessary software
required to drive load against it. Today, we are showcasing the
first major deployment of Olio on Sun's newest Intel Nehalem
based systems - the SunFire
X2270 and the SunFire X4270. We tested 10,000 concurrent
users (with a database of 1 million users) using over 1TB of
storage in the unstructured object store.
The diagram below shows the configuration we tested.
The Olio/PHP web application was deployed on two X2270 systems.
Since these …