Archive for the ‘MySQL’ Category

Percona Live MySQL Conference 2012

Posted: 14th April 2012 by Darren Cassar in MySQL
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It is the day after the conference ended and I feel great. Two days of percona live and a day of skysql, drizzle and sphynx presentations were just awesome. I can say that IMHO it is one of the best MySQL conferences since I started attending four years ago. Well done Percona. There were some [...]

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 [...]