… That’s not because I want to keep secrets from you. To the contrary, I‘d love to share it all… It’s just like a mechanic who listens to the car and says “I hear the valves knocking.” In … reply. If the client doesn’t understand what I‘m doing, I‘ve done something wrong. Clients need to understand so…
Post: Leaving MySQL, MySQL Consulting
July 31, 2006 By 23 Comments
I‘m leaving MySQL starting 1st of August. This is surely not news for my collegues and friends who…Russia and I loved it a lot. I will keep you posted as soon as I have something to show. I will …with me personally good testimonials would also be great. I‘ve got to do some Sales and Marketing now…
Post: MySQL-Memcached or NOSQL Tokyo Tyrant - part 1
October 15, 2009 By 16 Comments
… Over the past couple of months I have been doing a ton of work for clients who use their database like most people…? Over the past couple of months I have been doing a ton of work for clients who use their database like most people… ( at least temporarily ) outside the DB. Think memcached. Almost everyone loves memcached, it’s simple, fast, and just works. When your…
Post: How to Outrun the Lions
July 13, 2008 By 10 Comments
… measured by the number of active users), and I revealed the secrets to building applications that can…s your users. They will love you if you do a good job. They will love you so much that… reference to the book was because the company who sponsored the conference (Offerpal Media) gave everyone free…
Post: linux.conf.au 2012 roundup
January 24, 2012 By Leave a Comment
…howto be a better sysadmin. In fact… for those who weren’t there and spend any of their … from our mistakes can only make us better at doing our jobs. Hack Everything: repurposing everyday devices This … love and use. Migrating to PHP 5.4 Probably quite useful if you’re dealing with PHP (although I…
Comment: The perils of uniform hardware and RAID auto-learn cycles
December 6, 2010 By 16 Comments
…is a fundamental activity. I‘m just used to people not doing a lot of fundamentals 
I think that this …cause, as people would love to find. There is always a chain of failures. I had an experience in a…cause? Was it the bad doctor, or the administrators who could not fix the bad doctor’s mess? Both…
Post: MySQL Consulting - Being on your own
February 20, 2007 By 7 Comments
… Corporate MySQL thought. Now I‘m finally my own boss without limits. I can do what makes sense for …to change things rather than changing things ourselves. We love these small project which often lead by young … to have the same problem as everybody else who does MySQL Related work – it is very hard …
Post: Impossible - possible, moving InnoDB tables between servers
June 8, 2009 By 9 Comments
…. Since that I figured out how to survive without it, but this is first question I hear from customers who migrated from MyISAM to InnoDB – can I just copy .ibd files from… also need innodb_file_table mode, which ones love, and ones hate) 1) do backup of specific tables on sources server with…
Post: Faster MySQL failover with SELECT mirroring
February 1, 2009 By 9 Comments
… how much this really matters, I did some tests for a customer who was having troubles with this…switch.) After a day or so of doing this, I re-sampled the buffer pool contents on the… machine. PS: I see Robert Hodges just published an article on warm standby for PostgreSQL. Link love for interested…
Comment: Partially OpenSourced
April 15, 2008 By 21 Comments
…never was licensed under the GPL. Ideally we would love to license all our stuff under the GPL, but… for instance). That’s the reason why we are doing this. You may also have seen the Workbench …entrepreneurs who are producing great GPL software and building a business around it or on top of it. I am…
