This week we present the Sphinx Storage Engine. Ear Candy is a gotcha about setting variables in the configuration file, and At the Movies is a video about MariaDB.

Events
MySQL Connect will be held in San Francisco on Saturday September 29th and Sunday September 30th. The schedule is now online.

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This week we present what Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) means, as well as how InnoDB implements it to achieve transactionality and ACID compliance. Ear candy is a GROUP BY performance gotcha, and At the Movies is a FULLTEXT webinar from Percona.

Events
MySQL Connect will be held in San Francisco on Saturday September 29th and Sunday September 30th. The schedule is now online.

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This week we present InnoDB FULLTEXT search. Ear Candy is about SOUNDEX() and SOUNDS LIKE queries, and At the Movies is about FULLTEXT search throwdown by Bill Karwin.

Events
MySQL Connect will be held in San Francisco on Saturday September 29th and Sunday September 30th. The schedule is now online.

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This week we present the basics of MySQL FULLTEXT search. We talk about the myisam_ftdump utility in Ear Candy, and present an introduction to Sphinx in At the Movies.

Events
MySQL Connect will be held in San Francisco on Saturday September 29th and Sunday September 30th. The schedule is now online.

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This week we talk about sessions at MySQL Connect we think will be interesting to DBAs. Ear Candy is Python's Fabric library and command-line tool and At the Movies is Johan Andersson of Severalnines presenting Using MySQL as a NoSQL datastore - new featuers in MysQL Cluster 7.2 GA from the SkySQL solutions day back in April.

Events
FrOSCon will be held Saturday and Sunday, August 25th - 26th at the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Germany. Registration is a small fee for personal attendees, only 5 euros. It is more for corporate attendees. There will be a MySQL and friends room this year, as in years past.

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This week, we talk about the MySQL Connect format, and present our "Guide to MySQL Connect for Developers" and the few tech talks we think both DBAs and developers will find useful. In Ear Candy, we talk about how InnoDB stores the binary log position of the last successfully executed statement in its recovery logs. In At the Movies, we highlight Andrew Aksyonoff's talk on Sphinx at SkySQL's MySQL solutions day last April.

Events
FrOSCon will be held Saturday and Sunday, August 25th - 26th at the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Germany. Registration is a small fee for personal attendees, only 5 euros. It is more for corporate attendees. There will be a MySQL and friends room this year, as in years past.

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Conferences
FrOSCon will be held Saturday and Sunday, August 25th - 26th at the University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in Germany. Registration is a small fee for personal attendees, only 5 euros. It is more for corporate attendees. There will be a MySQL and friends room this year, as in years past.

MySQL Connect will be held in San Francisco on Saturday September 29th and Sunday September 30th. This is a technical conference about MySQL, bringing together MySQL engineers at Oracle and the MySQL Community, and will include sessions about the latest MySQL features and roadmaps. The …

This week, Sheeri talks about virtualization with Tim Hall during the Latin America Oracle Technology Network Tour. Earcandy is MySQL Sandbox and at the movies Giuseppe Maxia demos MySQL Sandbox during the 2011 MySQL Users Conference.

News
There is a new cheat sheet out from Dzone's Refcardz line, about database partitioning with MySQL. It is a free download once you make a free account: Database Partitioning with MySQL

Events
Oracle Tech Tour Pittsburgh and Chicago

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This week we present the 100th episode (yes, we started at episode 0), which is part 1 of a 2 part interview with XKCD's Randall Munroe.

OurSQL Podcast history
Episode 0 was on November 26, 2006.
Episode 26 on December 16, 2010 added Sarah Novotny as the first co-host and we hired our audio engineer and producer, Rich Goyette, due to the support of Justin Kestelyn and the Oracle Technology Network.

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