I told you to not use SELECT *

Also packed in an environment where MS Access may be present, as it does [Col Name] for identifier quoting (and Access users often use spaces in identifiers).

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Disabling NPTL for MySQL on RHEL4 systems

Ok, so this doesn’t work on all Linux systems. This because many don’t ship with LinuxThreads libraries any more. While that’s nice in theory, reality is that NPTL threading does not always work well, in particular MySQL server on 64-bit machines can experience trouble. Other apps don’t see the problems because they don’t use that [...]

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Sweden to open virtual embassy in My Second Life

Sweden to set up embassy in Second Life I reckon that’s very cool. I’d already heard about some people making their living “in there”.

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OSDC-chat at HUMBUG this Saturday (27 Jan)

Since so many HUMBUG members are interested in the OSDC-2007-in-Brisbane idea, there will be an initial gathering to discuss ideas and such at the HUMBUG meeting this Saturday, 27 January. HUMBUG is run at Room S201, Hawken Engineering Building (no. 50) at the University of Queensland. The usual HUMBUG meetings start at 3pm, but the [...]

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Getting OSDC 2007 to Brisbane

An excellent opportunity has come up to have the 2007 edition of the Open Source Developers Conference to Brisbane. Various people from Brisbane were independently interested, and we converged at LCA 2007 in Sydney last week. From discussions there, I understand that the OSDC committee is interested, but would of course like to make sure [...]

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Tridge’s Clustered TDB

At LCA I’m currently in Tridge’s session on CTDB – Clustered TDB. This is a clustered version of his little database library, for clustered Samba. Due to the different semantics it has a different API from TDB. There’s some very interesting stuff in there – obviously, it’s not a general purpose database. It’s asynchronous, event [...]

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MySQL Miniconf @ LCA2007 Sydney – Jan 15 schedule

Colin has posted the program for the MySQL Miniconf @ LCA2007, featuring (in no particular order) Laura Thomson, Guy Harrison, Jonathan Oxer, Morgan Tocker, Jonathon Coombes, myself, with Stewart Smith, Colin Charles and many other MySQL users also there. Plenty of interesting stuff and good fun to be had. Hope to meet you there!

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