Monthly Archives: May 2012

OurSQL Episode 92: It’s Not Our Type, Part 2

Posted on May 24, 2012 by podcast

This week we talk about numeric data types in MySQL.
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OurSQL Listener Jesper Hansen was nice enough to take a screen shot of episode 0 of the ourSQL podcast hitting 12,345 downloads.
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OurSQL Episode 91: It’s Not Our Type, Part 1

Posted on May 18, 2012 by podcast

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.
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OurSQL Episode 90: Handle With Care

Posted on May 11, 2012 by podcast

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.
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OurSQL Episode 89: Seal of Approval

Posted on May 4, 2012 by podcast

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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