Four Perconians (perconites?) will be at OpenSQL Camp in Sankt Augustin, Germany this weekend presenting talks on:
Recovery of Lost or Corrupted InnoDB Tables
Keep your MySQL backend online no matter what
XtraDB — InnoDB on steroids
Xtrabackup for MySQL
If you would like to stop by and say hello, we are Aleksandr, Istvan, Morgan and Aurimas ( pictures here ).
If you can make the (approximate) location, but not the date, we also have training in Frankfurt in three weeks time.
…movies, especially going to the movie theater. "I will often want to go to the movies (and drag Morgan there) for its own sake, not because there's anything out I even remotely want to see. There's something about setting everything else aside and just experiencing someone else's story for a few hours. Watching movies at home there are too many distractions." He also enjoys "standup comedy and concerts in seedy bars." His favorite artist is Ben Folds, and he …
Introducing Eric Nelson and Edd Morgan from Microsoft. Edd has written a great guest post on Eric's blog introducing IronRuby and including getting Rails up on running.
The post is here , and includes pictures of them both. They'll both be around during the conference if you've any questions.
Morgan Tocker has an awesome article and comment thread in the MySQL Performance Blog about When should you store serialized objects in the database? Before the NoSQL age is was very common to simulate schemalessness by storing blobs in MySQL . Sharding was implemented by running multiple MySQL instances and spreading writes across them. While not ideal for the purpose, developers felt comfortable with MySQL . They knew how to install it, back it up, replicate …
…non-trivial problem, I hope you remember your boolean algebra :). De Morgan's law and distributive law would be a good place to start I think.
Problems With Boolean Systems
As fun as boolean systems are, we can immediately spot some issues.
you need to learn the syntax, for some system this can get extremely complex, especially when more than just three operators are involved, infact people have made careers from being expert at using a particular boolean system …
Originally developed at JP Morgan as a vendor neutral wire and broker protocol, AMQP ( Advanced Message Queuing Protocol ) is, in fact, a general purpose messaging bus. The protocol itself is still under active development, but there are a variety of open source client and server implementations for it, as well as some big commercial supporters ( RedHat, Microsoft, etc). In other words, it works, it is production ready, and I can vouch for it from personal experience - we stream …