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MySQL site down? Can't get MySQL Docs? Technocation has a mirror!

sheeri — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:18:02 -0800

If the MySQL site (including documentation) isn't working for you, try a mirror site.

"But," you ask, "how do I know what the mirror sites are if I can't access the site?"

Great question! Technocation has a mirror site (updated daily) at http://technocation.org/mirror/mysql/.

Also, we have purchased www.mysqlmirrors.com which points to the official list of mirrors at http://technocation.org/mirror/mysql/downloads/mirrors.html.

MySQL User Group Videos

sheeri — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:25:46 -0800

2009 Boston MySQL User Group Videos:

Dec 2009 - Time Zones in MySQL (Sheeri K. Cabral) - video - PDF presentation - Description

Nov 2009 - How InnoDB works: Exploring SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS (Sheeri K. Cabral) - video - PDF presentation - Description

Trouble with Percona blog at mysqlperformanceblog.com

sheeri — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:47:52 -0700

In the past few days it has come to my attention that some people are having problems with Percona's blog at http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com. I was told that trackbacks seem to be broken and some comments were not showing up.

Anyone else having any problems with what looks like censorship? [edit: trackbacks were a technical error, Dave's comment was trapped in a spam trap. Still looking for people to comment whether or not they're seeing a similar issue, as it's important for people to check to see if their comments are showing up.]

Eric Day and Patrick Galbraith speak about Drizzle at the July 2009 Boston MySQL User Group

sheeri — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:00:00 -0700

Eric Day and Patrick Galbraith spoke on Drizzle, Gearman and Narada at the July 2009 Boston MySQL User Group. This is part 1 of the video, which is about an hour long and is about Drizzle.

"We will explain what the Drizzle project is, what we aim to accomplish, and an overview of where we are at."

The slides can be downloaded from http://www.oddments.org/notes/DrizzleGearmanBoston2009.pdf

The User Group calendar item for this event is http://www.meetup.com/mysqlbos/calendar/10607736/

Video: Chasing Bottlenecks

sheeri — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:53:09 -0700

Video for the presentation at the 2009 MySQL Camp:
Chasing Bottlenecks
by Morgan Tocker

Description:
The best way to performance tune a system is to find out what your bottlenecks are, and attacking those first. In the first part of this session, I'll be looking at some of the issues faced with common database workloads. From there, I'll then be showing how you can get more information out of MySQL and your Operating System to find out about your workload. This session is designed for beginner to intermediate MySQL users.

How I hacked the HP Mini Mobile drive port to be a normal USB port

sheeri — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:48:07 -0700

So I got my hands on an HP mini 1000 last week. Not bad for $250 at Best Buy, although it has needed some help, namely:

- External USB hard drive - I got the Mini 1000 that comes with a 16 Gb SSD, and want this to be my primary computer (I'm not a gamer, just web surfing and *occasional* video editing). I bought a 320Gb Buffalo Mini Station, for about $60 at Microcenter.

- 2 Gb RAM - already had a stick, free for me (otherwise $20), easy to pop in.

- USB to VGA adapter - HP has a nice proprietary VGA port, to which they didn't have an adapter for a long time (6 months or so)....now, the adapters exist, but they're out of stock. I bought a USB to VGA adaptor at Microcenter for about $70.

Making Drupal Dance: Techniques for Non-obvious Theme Manipulations

sheeri — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

John Albin Wilkins presents "Making Drupal Dance: Techniques for Non-obvious Theme Manipulations at the 2009 Design 4 Drupal conference in Boston. Unfortunately the beginning is cut off; however there is still over 40 minutes of video and plenty of good information in the video.

Video: MySQL 5.4

sheeri — Fri, 15 May 2009 03:00:00 -0700

Giuseppe Maxia spoke at the May 2009 Boston MySQL User Group about MySQL 5.4 and what it can do, the new performance features, etc.

Video: What the MySQL Is This, Anyway?

sheeri — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:13:35 -0700

Giuseppe Maxia and I are in the exact middle of our leg of the MySQL Campus Tour. Yesterday's session is was recorded -- A PDF of the slides can be downloaded at http://technocation.org/files/doc/2009_04_Tour.pdf (21 Mb).

The video is below:

Video: InnoDB Database Recovery Techniques

sheeri — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:17:01 -0700

Video for the presentation at the 2009 MySQL Camp:
InnoDB Database Recovery Techniques
Peter Zaitsev (Percona)

Description:
Have you ever had Innodb database corrupted or have deleted data accidentally and want it back ? This session will go through various approaches you can use to get most of your data back using MySQL build in features as well as third party open source tool.

This session speaks about Innodb database recovery techniques (apart from recovering from back).

First we will discuss various types of Innodb corruption and data loss scenarios ranging from user error to hardware failures.