Archive for the ‘MySQL’ Category

MySQL.com hacked?

Posted: 26th September 2011 by Darren Cassar in MySQL
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As per amorize.com MySQL.com was hacked and quote “infecting visitors with malware” .. true or false? … More reading at krebsonsecurity.com too.

About a month ago I needed to compare tens of thousands of tables in hundreds of databases between a few different servers. The obvious choice was, mk-table-checksum! The only problem was, that the tool needs to know the minimum and maximum value of the column by which each table is to be subdivided into chunks [...]

Effective MySQL Meetup in NY

Posted: 23rd April 2011 by Darren Cassar in MySQL
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A few months ago Ronald Bradford took it upon himself to reinvigorate the MySQL community in NY. It was then that Ronald came up with EffectiveMySQL, a much needed breeze of fresh air in the big apple’s for us MySQL users. This coming Tuesday, 26th April 2011, there is going to be the second (of [...]

MySQL DBA compensation in the US

Posted: 20th April 2011 by Darren Cassar in MySQL

Hi, Maybe you heard about salaryshare.me or maybe you haven’t, but either way, if you are a MySQL DBA in the US you should participate (ananymously) in order to learn how you compare to other MySQL DBAs. Fair enough, people have different experience level, some contract, some live in Santa Clara and some live in [...]