Monthly Archives: December 2011

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 70: Table Manners, part 1

We called this podcast table manners because we are often asked what MySQL fork to use. This is part 1 of a 2-part series. This week we delve into Oracle’s MySQL and Drizzle.

News:
There will be a “MySQL and Friends” devroom at FOSDEM 2012 in Brussels, Belgium on Sunday, February 5th, 2012. If you are interested in giving a talk, please submit it before December 26th through the submission form. There will also be a dinner on Saturday February 4th, for anyone making travel plans.

Last week we talked about the debian packages available for MySQL 5.5. We went looking for the packages and could not find the Debian drop-down for downloading MySQL 5.5, but we’re happy to report that the drop-down menu item is there now. http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/

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OurSQL Episode 69: Replication Secret Agent

In this episode we talk about the MySQL Master High Availability Agent, aka MHA.

News

There will be a “MySQL and Friends” devroom at FOSDEM 2012. The dev room is scheduled for Sunday 5th February 2012, whole day. If you are interested to give a talk, please submit it before December 26th through the submission form. You can read the original announcement by Frédéric Descamps.

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OurSQL Episode 68: Scaling, or Sailing?

This week Sheeri visits the Schooner offices and inteviews Dr John Busch, the CTO, Founder, and Chairman of the Board for Schooner. Schooner is able to fully use multi-core processors and do fully synchronous replication without losing performance. … Continue reading

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