A few months ago, I reviewed MySQL Admin Cookbook. Today I am
reviewing High Availability MySQL Cookbook from Packt Publishing
by Alex Davies. Overall, I found the book to contain some
good hidden Gems.
The book is a mixture of MySQL Cluster (NDB), Replication
schemes, some performance tuning, some minor kernel tweaking, and
some more exotic approaches to common High Availability problems.
Overall, I found this book very informative and a good
read.
Now the specifics, the book starts out on NDB and stays focused
on this fact for about 60% of the book. The next 20% is on mySQL
replication then about 10% of the book is on tweaking kernel,
mysql, network settings to get the most out of …
Dear Kettle fans,
A few weeks ago, when I was stuck in the US after the MySQL User Conference, a new book was published by Packt Publishing.
That all by itself is something that is not too remarkable. However, this time it’s a book about my brainchild Kettle. That makes this book very special to me. The full title is Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration : Beginner’s Guide (Amazon, Packt). The title all by itself explains the purpose of this book: give the reader a quick-start when it comes to Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle).
The author María Carina Roldán ( …
[Read more]I’ve recently been migrating my wiki/documentation for Kontrollbase to Trac. For those that are not aware, Trac is a web-based documentation/wiki/Subversion tool that is used by countless number of software projects. Subversion, of course, is a software collaboration and code management repository that manages branches/tags/trunk files with revision control. It’s one of the most heavily used open-source code repositories available. Given that I use SVN (subversion) for all of my software applications and am now using Trac, the book “Managing Software Development with Trac and Subversion” by David J Murphy comes as a useful and great resource for integrating these two useful tools. …
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I just finished reading Joel Spolskys book "Joel on Software",
and I had a good and interesting read I have to say. This doesn't
mean that I agree with everything in this, by now a bit dated,
published in 2004 and as it is a collection of writings from
Spolskys website www.joelonsoftware.com, it is more dated than
that.
Spolsky writes in a rather humorous, witty style, and he is very
opinionated and has strong opinions on many things. And he
sometimes hits some rather minor issue which he dislikes with a
baseball bat. But I enjoyed reading the book, it was a fun read
and it got me thinking on issues, even though I didn't agree with
Spolsky always, frankly, most of the time I didn't (he's not too
hot on Open Source for example, and gives examples why it's not
going to work, and we now know, as the book is dated, how things
went. And he was wrong). But the deal with this book …
The fine folks at O'Reilly sent me reviewer copy of two books on
Erlang
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Erlang Programming: A Concurrent Approach to
Software Development by Francesco Cesarini and Simon
Thompson
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Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent
World by Joe Armstrong.
I am currently in the process of learning Erlang for a personal
project. These books both measures up to the high expectations I
have come to expect from Pragmatic Programmers Publishing and
from O'Reilly Books.
Erlang is a difficult language to "sell", and is a challenge to
learn.
Both books assume you have decently good programming skills, and
don't need your hand held too much …
Peter Lieverdink (also known as cafuego on IRC/identi.ca, engineer on OurDelta builds and for Open Query) has co-authored a book that’s available since Monday. The title is Pro Linux System Administration published by Apress.
These days some people don’t want to bother with system administration, and either hire or outsource. Others want to find out more and do things themselves (home and small office use), and that’s the intended audience for this book.
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I will be in Madrid on June 18-19, to participate to the Sun Open Communities Forum. I will have two presentations on my own, and I will be a guest speaker during Victor Jimenez's session. There will be some ancillary activities, among which a lunch with the MySQL community and a MySQL workshop. |
During one of these activities, I will give away one copy of the
MySQL Administrator’s Bible. If you are a
MySQL enthusiast and you are in Madrid, that's an extra reason to
attend the forum. For the ones who still don't know how …
Yes!
Last night, I completed the draft of "Pentaho Solutions", which is a book I'm
writing together with my friend and colleague Jos van
Dongen for Wiley.
(Actually, the full title is: "Pentaho Solutions: Business
Intelligence and Data Warehousing with Pentaho and MySQL")
Here's an overview of the contents, just to give you an idea what
we have been doing:
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- Part I: Getting Started, Prerequisites, Installation and
Configuration and Overview
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- Chapter 1: Quick Start: Pentaho PCI Examples
- Chapter 2: Prerequisites
- Chapter 3: Server Installation and Configuration
- Chapter 4: The Pentaho …
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A year ago, the outline was being written. A lot of work was crammed into the intervening months, and I am happy and proud to announce that the MySQL Administrator’s Bible has been published, and is sitting on the shelf at many major booksellers already. The official publication date is today — Monday, May 11th, 2009 — although some stores have had copies for a week, including Amazon.com.
The MySQL Administrator’s Bible, published by Wiley Press (available on Amazon.com at http://www.amazon.com/MySQL-Administrators-Bible-Sheeri-Cabral/dp/0470416912/, fully covers how to administer MySQL 5.1. It is suitable for people new to MySQL, although as an experienced MySQL DBA I can say that I learned a lot while researching and writing this book, and I believe that even veteran DBAs can learn from this book.
This book for …
[Read more]I recently noticed several new books based on GlassFish Server, like Yuli's book on Java EE and DBs, Using MySQL and GlassFish and Antonio's book on Java EE 6 with GF v3. Looking a bit more I also found that David also has a new book on NetBeans 6 and Java EE 5 (w/ GF) and Adam has one on the …
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