Report from Barcamp Johor Bahru

This weekend, I decided to attend BarcampJB pretty last minute. Lucky for me, barcamps are made for chaotics like me, so it was no problem at all. I found some friends that live here in Kuala Lumpur who I drove down to JB with (JB is around a 5 hour drive from KL, we did [...]

Open Query on Twitter/Identi.ca

Open Query now has its own @openquery account on Twitter and Identi.ca so you can conveniently follow us there for announcements and tips – and also ask us questions! All OQ engineers can post/reply. The OQ site front page also tracks this feed. Previously I was posting from my personal @arjenlentz account with #openquery hashtag, [...]

Challenge: identify this pattern in datadir

You take a look at someone’s MySQL (or MariaDB) data directory, and see mysql foo bar -> foo What’s the issue? Identify pattern. What does it mean?  Consequences. Is there any way it can be safe and useful/usable? Describe. Good luck!