Category Archives: General

OurSQL Episode 123: Storing Bags of Bytes

This week we discuss different filesystems and how they work. Ear Candy talks about the “-bibyte” suffix, and At the Movies presents an indexing webinar.
Events
FOSDEM 2013 is taking place in Brussels, Belgium Sat Feb 2 – Sun Feb 3rd.
OSCON 2013 will t… Continue reading

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OurSQL Episode 122: Nobody’s Perfect – 2012 Blooper Retrospective

This podcast would not achieve its goal if there were no listeners to learn about MySQL. This week we play a bunch of bloopers as our year-end gift to you. We hope these make you laugh!
2011 Blooper Retrospective
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OurSQL Episode 116: Do You Make the Grade (part 5)?

This week, we finish our series on the Operations Report Card as it applies to database administrators. In Ear Candy, we discuss one problem with setting table_open_cache higher than needed., and At the Movies is Tools and Techniques of Index Design by… Continue reading

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OurSQL Episode 115: Do You Make the Grade (part 4)?

This week, we continue our series going through the Operations Report Card as it applies to database administrators. This week in Ear Candy, we talk about a hidden client value for max_allowed_packet (separate from the session variable). In At the Movi… Continue reading

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OurSQL Episode 114: Do You Make the Grade (part 3)?

This week we continue part 3 of the Operations Report Card and how it relates to database administration. This week we talk about the section on “Operational Practices”, and it covers how operations are run. In Ear Candy we present different tools for … Continue reading

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OurSQL Episode 112: Do You Make the Grade (part 2)?

This week, we go through the “Modern Team Practices” part of the Operations Report Card, and how it applies to DBAs.
Events
Oracle’s “Scale with MySQL” seminars:
Scale with MySQL Seminar, London, Tuesday 30 October
Bucharest Romania, Tuesday 13 Novembe… Continue reading

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OurSQL Episode 111: Do You Make the Grade (part 1)?

This is part one of a series where we will explore the Operations Report Card and explain how it applies to DBAs. Listen and grade your own organization, this is a great opportunity to get some new ideas on how to organize your department and make your… Continue reading

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OurSQL Episode 100: The Ball Pit

This week we present part 2 of our interview with XKCD’s Randall Munroe, where we finish talking about data privacy and security, and talk about Randall’s real-life ball pit in his apartment, and his thoughts on fanny packs.
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OurSQL Episode 99: Data Privacy and Security

This week we present the 100th episode (yes, we started at episode 0), which is part 1 of a 2 part interview with XKCD’s Randall Munroe.
OurSQL Podcast history
Episode 0 was on November 26, 2006.
Episode 26 on December 16, 2010 added Sarah Novotny as t… Continue reading

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

This week we talk about numeric data types in MySQL.
News/Events/Feedback
OurSQL Listener Jesper Hansen was nice enough to take a screen shot of episode 0 of the ourSQL podcast hitting 12,345 downloads.
Conferences:
MySQL Innovation Day Schedule Tuesda… Continue reading

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