Category Archives: General

OurSQL Episode 91: It’s Not Our Type, Part 1

In this episode we talk about string data types, comparing them to the ISO:2003 SQL standard.
Gerry has joined Tokutek – Congrats Gerry! We interviewed Martin from Tokutek in episode 86.
Conferences:
MySQL Innovation Day Schedule Tuesday June 5th, Redw… Continue reading

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OurSQL Episode 90: Handle With Care

This week we present how to use pt-archiver and pt-find, two Percona Toolkit tools. We focus on the common usage of the tools and the gotchas we ran into using them.
News/Events/Feedback
Conferences:
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OurSQL Episode 89: Seal of Approval

This week we talk about MariaDB – explaining features, and comparing to Percona’s patched MySQL and Oracle’s MySQL. MariaDB is touted as “a better MySQL, not a different MySQL”. MariaDB is the 2nd most popular open source database, even more popular th… Continue reading

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OurSQL Episode 85: Keep it Under Control

This week we talk about package and configuration management with MySQL.
News/Events:
Don’t forget to send us questions to answer for future versions of Ear Candy, see the “Feedback” section below.
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OurSQL Episode 82: Cloudy With a Chance of Data

This week, we talk about cloud computing with Amazon AWS.
News:
Oracle will be at DrupalCon in Denver, CO from Monday, March 19th through Friday, March 23rd.
Percona’s XtraDB cluster announcement
XtraDB Cluster at the San Francisco MySQL Meetup on Wedn… Continue reading

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OurSQL Episode 80: Lesser Known Percona Tools

This week, we talk about lesser-known Percona tools for MySQL.
News/Feedback:
This week we have some fun audio feedback from Patrick Hurley, a MySQL DBA in the UK.
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OurSQL Episode 72: Blooper Retrospective

This week we play a bunch of bloopers, some you have heard, some you haven’t, as our year-end gift to you. We hope these make you laugh!
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OurSQL Episode 71: Table Manners, part 2

This week, we continue our discussion about MySQL and its forks. We discuss the Percona server and MariaDB.
Percona Live comes to Washington, DC on Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. There is a 50% discount f… Continue reading

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OurSQL Episode 49: Stalking MySQL

Reminder: Due to busy summer conference schedules, we are going to be publishing the podcast every other week.
This week we talk about a monitoring plugin from PalominoDB that uses caching (like the cacti templates) and allow for arbitrary calculation… Continue reading

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OurSQL Episode 31: The MySQL Ecosystem

This week, Sarah’s off, and Sheeri interviews Brian Aker of Data Differential, mostly about the MySQL Ecosystem.
Among the topics discussed are whether the MySQL Ecosystem has peaked yet, the exciting talks coming up at the O’Reilly MySQL Conference in… Continue reading

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