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This morning, Sun Microsystems announced plans to acquire MySQL AB.
After all the industry speculation about MySQL being a “hot 2008 IPO”, this probably takes most of us by surprise — users, community members, customers, partners, and employees. And for all of these stakeholders, it may take some time to digest what this means. Depending on one’s relationship to MySQL, the immediate reaction upon hearing the news may be a mixture of various feelings, including excitement, pride, disbelief and satisfaction, but also anxiety. Read more »
This article explains how to test the performance of a large database with MySQL 5.1, showing the advantages of using partitions.
The test database uses data published by the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Currently, the data consists of ~ 113 million records (7.5 GB data + 5.2 GB index).
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In this article, we discuss the XML functionality available in MySQL, with an emphasis on new features coming online in MySQL 5.1 and MySQL 6.0. We assume that you already have a working knowledge of XML, and that you know what the terms “valid” and “well-formed” mean. We also assume that you have some knowledge of XPath.
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In part 2 we discussed the internals of MPP and how MPP can be used with LVS to create a failover strategy. In this part 3 we will discuss how to configure and operate MPP, and additionally use MPP with MySQL Proxy to create a failover strategy.
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In September, the Developer Zone
featured Chapter 6 of Paul DuBois' MySQL, 3rd edition on Writing
C Programs with the MySQL C API. This month, we continue in this
series on developing MySQL applications in C with a tutorial from Mark
Schoonover about using the Eclipse CDT (C Development Toolkit) as an IDE for developing C applications for MySQL.
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In Part 1 we have seen how the concept of state management works. Now it's time to apply that concept to a load-balancer. In this Part 2 we will look at a strategy for using Linux Virtual Server with MPP for failover, and also take a closer look at the mechanics of MPP itself.
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