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As announced by Stefan Hinz, our tireless documentation leader, we are using a new system for MySQL University. With DimDim, we can have more fluid and interactive presentations. Unlike the previous homegrown system, you don't need to download the slides, which will be shown to you by the presenter. There is no sound delay, and attendees can interact with the presentation by (integrated) chat and by graphical tools. | …
Oct
30
2008
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01
2008
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If you are using MySQL replication, you know how hard is to monitor it properly. You have a wide choice of commercial and free tools, all of which check the health of your replication system from the outside. A few years ago, I wrote an article advocating a self-monitoring and self-healing replication system, using new features in MySQL 5.1. At the time, there were some missing technology pieces to make this project feasible. Now the pieces exist, and you can create your own self monitoring replication system. |
Hartmut rules!It started during …
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Jul
05
2008
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Over the last months I have seen some impressive presentations about Open Solaris, and I wanted to give it a try. The live CD provided with opensolaris 2008.05 is very easy to install, and so I set it up in a virtual machine. The environment looks familiar for a seasoned Linux user, and thus I decided to use it as a test bed for my MySQL Sandbox, which includes a test suite that lets you run a complete test with little effort. |
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Well, little effort for you, maybe, but not for the operating system. The test puts a lot of stress on the … |
Jul
02
2008
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Taking advantage of Launchpad excellent development services, I completed the tasks necessary to release MySQL Sandbox 2.0. So, you may ask, what's new? Quite a lot, actually:
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more intuitive script names
One of …
Jun
11
2008
On Thursday, June 12, at 15:00 CEST (14:00 GMT), there will be a MySQL University Lesson on MySQL Sandbox, a tool to install one or more side server in a few seconds.
To attend the lesson, follow the instructions for attendees and download the recommended material.
Apr
16
2008
Here are my liveblogging notes from MySQL Sandbox: Easily Using Multiple Database Servers in Isolation by Giuseppe Maxia
Giuseppe has been a community member since 2001, and in the past year or so, a MySQL Employee.
He likes to give things away for free — he gave away T-shirts to the early arrivers to the workshop, and that’s why he’s giving away the sandbox as well. The sandbox is NOT an official MySQL product. It is released from GPL, available from http://sf.net/projects/mysql-sandbox.
Why the sandbox? To be able to set up 1 server in under 10 seconds. And to be able to set up multiple MySQL instances very quickly, and to use them quickly.
The sandbox untars in seconds, for …
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