http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/ O'Reilly Databases Blog en Copyright 2008 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:34:15 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.21 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss One of the significant features in version 2.0 of Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL is MySQL backups using Solaris ZFS. Doing MySQL backups using filesystem snapshots has minimal impact on the MySQL databases. The MySQL databases are not available... http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2008/04/mysql_backups_using_zfs_snapsh_1.html http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2008/04/mysql_backups_using_zfs_snapsh_1.html Articles 2008-04-11T12:34:15-08:00 Paddy Sreenivasan We have significantly improved the snapshot interface for doing MySQL backups using ZRM. This work has been released as part of ZRM 2.0. ZRM 2.0 has couple of snapshot plugins - Linux LVM and Solaris ZFS that uses the interface.... http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2008/04/improved_snapshot_interface_fo.html http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2008/04/improved_snapshot_interface_fo.html News 2008-04-04T10:41:36-08:00 Paddy Sreenivasan Last week, I described how to use the MySQL plug-in API to write a minimal 'Hello world!' information schema plug-in. The main purpose of that plug-in is to illustrate the bare essentials of the MySQL information schema plug-in interface. In... http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2008/02/reporting_mysql_internals_with.html http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2008/02/reporting_mysql_internals_with.html Articles 2008-02-10T15:04:51-08:00 Roland Bouman MySQL 5.1 offers an extremely useful feature called information_schema plugins. This feature allows dynamic runtime loading of a shared library into the MySQL server to implement a table in the information_schema database. The SQL standard (ISO/IEC 9075-11:2003) allows database implementations... http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2008/02/mysql_information_schema_plugi.html http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2008/02/mysql_information_schema_plugi.html Technical 2008-02-01T05:01:08-08:00 Roland Bouman Earlier today, Sun announced that it will be acquiring MySQL. This is an interesting turn of events in the endless battle over MySQL by Oracle. http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2008/01/sun_buys_mysql.html http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2008/01/sun_buys_mysql.html News 2008-01-16T06:35:42-08:00 Jonah Harris I believe I found a new method to calculate the median in MySQL. I would not be surprised if this method has been figured out by somebody else already. However, I can't seem to find any resources on the internet... http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2007/12/calculating_the_financial_medi.html http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2007/12/calculating_the_financial_medi.html Technical 2007-12-17T02:47:43-08:00 Roland Bouman A few times now, I've been wanting to write this down. I know: a lot of people will go *shrug*. Others may find me pedantic. Some of will say I'm being a smart-ass. Whatever...but I just got to write down... http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2007/11/random_rdbms_and_sql_myths_deb.html http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2007/11/random_rdbms_and_sql_myths_deb.html Articles 2007-11-09T01:44:25-08:00 Roland Bouman The Date dimension is a well known construct in general data warehousing. In many cases, the data for a date dimension is generated using a database stored procedure or shell-script. Another approach to obtain the data for a date dimension... http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2007/09/kettle_tip_using_java_locales.html http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2007/09/kettle_tip_using_java_locales.html Articles 2007-09-03T15:18:06-08:00 Roland Bouman List of top 5 items that have to be considered before deciding on a MySQL backup implementation are: * How fast and how easy do you want the MySQL Recovery process to be? * What will be the impact of... http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2007/08/top_5_considerations_while_set.html http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2007/08/top_5_considerations_while_set.html Articles 2007-08-21T16:03:22-08:00 Paddy Sreenivasan We are working on Zmanda Management Console for our MySQL backup product line: Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL. ZRM for MySQL is an enterprise backup and recovery solution for MySQL. ... http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2007/06/seeking_mysql_backup_console_f.html http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2007/06/seeking_mysql_backup_console_f.html News 2007-06-26T13:59:16-08:00 Paddy Sreenivasan Disclaimer - views expressed in this blog (and this entry) are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of MySQL AB Ever since I wrote my blog entry about Google Gears and the query tool for the browser... http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2007/06/what_mysql_can_do_to_enter_the.html http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2007/06/what_mysql_can_do_to_enter_the.html Opinion 2007-06-03T02:16:10-08:00 Roland Bouman Google Gears is an open source browser extension created by Google. It provides a framework that allows the creation of offline webbrowser applications. At the moment it provides three services: Local Server A data store for static resources. This allows... http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2007/06/post_1.html http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2007/06/post_1.html Articles 2007-06-02T07:10:08-08:00 Roland Bouman There is a popular myth about the SQL GROUP BY clause. The myth holds that 'standard SQL' requires columns referenced in the SELECT list of a query to also appear in the GROUP BY clause, unless these columns appear exclusively... http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2007/05/debunking_group_by_myths.html http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2007/05/debunking_group_by_myths.html Articles 2007-05-21T10:16:07-08:00 Roland Bouman Shortly before MySQL Users Conference I announced that I would be cover new ground in table logs management. I am keeping that promise, and in addition I am also showing some related hacks. The announced facts from last year usability... http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2007/05/hacking_mysql_table_logs.html http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2007/05/hacking_mysql_table_logs.html Technical 2007-05-08T10:30:23-08:00 Giuseppe Maxia Thought I'd pass along this note I received, that may be of interest to the MySQL addicts out there: >> Sasha Pachev, whose book Understanding MySQL Internals was released >> last month by O'Reilly, is leading an online seminar at... http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2007/05/your_turn_to_play_stump_the_au.html http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2007/05/your_turn_to_play_stump_the_au.html News 2007-05-08T09:51:05-08:00 James Turner