Monthly Archives: January 2007

OurSQL Episode 7: What’s it Like To Be Normal?

Posted on January 31, 2007 by sheeri

In this episode, I go over database normalization in general and explain 1st Normal Form (1NF) in depth.
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OurSQL Episode 6: Falcon, Part 2

Posted on January 16, 2007 by sheeri

In this episode, the second part in a two-part series about Falcon, the new storage engine provided by MySQL, we talk about what happens when commit, going over and explaining the serial log and indexes.
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OurSQL Episode 5: Falcon, Part 1

Posted on January 15, 2007 by sheeri

Finally, episode 5 is here. In this episode, the first part in a two-part series about Falcon, the new storage engine provided by MySQL, we talk about what happens when you query a Falcon table, going over and explaining MVCC and the record cache. Ne… Continue reading →

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OurSQL Episode 4: Cluster From Down Under

Posted on January 4, 2007 by sheeri

This week’s podcast is an interview with MySQL’s Stewart Smith, software engineer for MySQL Cluster. Straight from the warm southern hemisphere, Stewart talks about Cluster. Because we gabbed on and on for 19 minutes, we’ve stripped the format do… Continue reading →

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