Monthly Archives: March 2012

OurSQL Episode 85: Keep it Under Control

This week we talk about package and configuration management with MySQL.
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OurSQL Episode 84: Going to the Big Show

This week we give an overview of Percona Live and what we think are the highlights, including which sessions we recommend for beginners and which we cannot wait to see for ourselves.

On Tuesday June 5th, 2012, a MySQL Innovation Day is being hosted at Oracle’s Conference Center in Redwood Shores, California. The MySQL Innovation day will feature multiple “lightning” talks by Oracle’s MySQL Engineers, If you cannot make it out to California, the lightning talks will be available via a live webcast, too – so either way, save the date! Unfortunately there’s no link yet.

MariaDB 5.5 beta announcement

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OurSQL Episode 83: The NewSQL World

This week, we talk with Ori Herrnstadt, CTO of Akiban.
MariaDB announced their 5.3 GA and 5.5 alpha releases.
Oracle will be at DrupalCon in Denver, CO from Monday, March 19th through Friday, March 23rd.
Percona’s XtraDB cluster announcement
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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
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OurSQL Episode 81: From the Tool Bench

This week we present the how’s and why’s of benchmarking MySQL.
News/Feedback:
MySQL Cluster 7.2 can do one billion queries per minute, what does that actually mean?
Percona’s XtraDB cluster announcement
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