Wasn’t EnterpriseDB focusing on replacing Oracle in some cases, with specific Oracle-compatible features tacked onto its PostgreSQL base? This seems like a reasonable thing to do, good for them.
What I’m just amazed about is that EnterpriseDB in public communications and appearances keeps focusing on MySQL. What’s the point? This started long ago with a movie [...]
You know, the spider! Many good ideas don’t come from a specific field such as databases…. this gem comes from my daughter Phoebe, this morning as I was getting my bike ready to ride us to school. She said “don’t give up papa, keep on going! Just like Incy Wincy Spider, he climbed up, got [...]
This bug (http://bugs.mysql.com/19027) was reported by Peter Zaitsev over two years ago… it may not be critical, but it’s nasty and surely it can be fixed. This is the problem.
If InnoDB incurs a fatal error during initialisation, for instance changing logfile size, or from a typo in another parameter in the config, mysqld still starts [...]
This is a controversial angle, and when put it like this I know many people vehemently disagree with it. Late last week, a “very high end dual site / fully redundant SAN system” at Internode failed, causing serious disruption in this ISPs various services. Internode are one of Australia’s big “good guys” in ISP land [...]
As noted in this article: PC grants pay for licence fees, it appears that in the current setup, the Rudd government’s education revolution ends up less than ideal, with a heap of the money flowing to mainly Microsoft.
Clarifying the story… state education authorities and catholic education generally have an arrangement with Microsoft which gives them [...]
Happens a lot these days, like when people (finally) discover the virtues of InnoDB. Of course there’s more to it than just the conversion, for instance some server tuning will be required also.
Anyway, there are a few methods:
Most MySQL installations will have the mysql_convert_table_format script (Perl) included. The script does not contain an option to [...]
In the realm of the daily WTF, this SQL doozy popped up earlier in the year: Oklahoma Leaks Tens of Thousands of Social Security Numbers, Other Sensitive Data
SQL queries were part of the URLs, so anybody could see which tables/cols were present, and modify at will to extract lots of privileged data including social [...]
Kristy Bennett is well known in OSS circles in Australia as a creative soul, as well as a serial (and concurrent) entrepreneur. Among many other things, she runs MIB Business Solutions providing a range of management and marketing services. This is usually done in-house, but every once in a while she offers public training days. [...]
