In response to a frequently asked devops question, John Vincent suggests a lowtech monitoring strategy for DBA's. This article sums up the main points of the tutorial, including a link to the original post.
0 replies - 2424 views - 02/02/12 by Eric Genesky in Articles
Hippo CMS is a Java open source web content management system that enables a true, open and context-aware content strategy. It is targeted at medium to large organisations managing content for multi-channel distribution like, web sites and intranets.
As...
0 replies - 1208 views - 02/02/12 by Judah Johns in Articles
Today I was putzing around in the geo-spatial collection when I
noticed that I had an unhappy over one of the column names within the
collection.In the mySQL world, changing a column name is pretty straight-forward courtesy of the alter...
1 replies - 1250 views - 01/30/12 by Micheal Shallop in Articles
Today I’m gonna share with you my experience when I started with
Apache Cassandra…One of the most complicated steps to learn any NoSql
stuff, is to take away of your mind the normalization principles and
those relational DB structures. Relational...
0 replies - 3492 views - 01/18/12 by Jose Alvarez Mu... in Articles
For my social news stream
application I am heavily thinking about the right software to support
my backend. After I designed a database model in MySQL I talked back to
Jonas and he suggested to search for a better suiting technology. A
little bit of...
4 replies - 4561 views - 12/26/11 by René Pickhardt in Articles
There are a lot of considerations for deploying MySQL in the Cloud.
Some concepts and details won't be obvious to DBAs used to deploying on
traditional servers. Here are eight best practices which will
certainly set you off on the right foot.**...
1 replies - 3592 views - 11/10/11 by Sean Hull in Articles
Once a development or operations team gets over the hurdle of
open-source, and start to feel comfortable with the way software works
outside of the enterprise world, they will likely start to settle in and
feel comfortable. Fear not, there are more...
0 replies - 3695 views - 09/21/11 by Sean Hull in News
DbSchema is a database tool designed to be an easy-to-use
software, no matter if you are a professional SQL developer or a novice user.
It is one of the best solutions, since it can be used on all major operating
systems and it can be used on a wide range of...
0 replies - 810 views - 08/25/11 by Wise Coders in Announcements
Major Upgrade Released Version 2.1.0 of this database design and synchronization software has been released.
The primary new features of this major release include:
0 replies - 1419 views - 08/16/11 by Harnek R in Announcements
There are a lot of scalability challenges we see with clients over
and over. The list could easily include 20, 50 or even 100 items, but
we shortened it down to the biggest five issues we see.
1. Tune those queries
0 replies - 6165 views - 07/31/11 by Sean Hull in News
Mozilla announced "Boot to Gecko" today, their take on a mobile operating system. B2G's main goal is to "pursue the goal of building a complete, standalone operating system for the open web". Mozilla envisions an operating system based on...
2 replies - 14341 views - 07/25/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose
Five easy steps to reset MySQL root password.
0 replies - 1943 views - 05/13/11 by Artur Mkrtchyan in Articles
VMware's SpringSource has just released what they are calling the first open source PaaS. With Cloud Foundry,
developers can choose their framework, app services, and can run their
creations on a variety of cloud environments.
0 replies - 16247 views - 04/13/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose
Drizzle is the latest lightweight fork originating from Oracle's MySQL database. The Drizzle development team has eliminated all of the features they considered non-essential, leaving behind a leaner, faster version of MySQL. Users will enjoy the reduced...
2 replies - 19898 views - 03/17/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose
It was two years ago when Sun released MySQL 5.1. Today the open source project's formidable user base will finally get the next major release, MySQL 5.5. The first major version produced by Oracle includes InnoDB by default, SIGNAL/RESIGNAL support for...
0 replies - 24479 views - 12/17/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
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