High Performance MySQL, Second Edition: Backup and Recovery
Progress on High Performance MySQL, Second Edition is coming along nicely. You have probably noticed the lack of epic multi-part articles on this blog lately — that’s because I’m spending most of my...
View ArticleMySQL Archiver can now archive each row to a different table
One of the enhancements I added to MySQL Archiver in the recent release was listed innocently in the changelog as “Destination plugins can now rewrite the INSERT statement.” Not very exciting or...
View ArticleKickfire: stream-processing SQL queries
Some of you have noticed Kickfire, a new sponsor at this year’s MySQL Conference and Expo. Like Keith Murphy, I have been involved with them for a while now. This article explains the basics of how...
View ArticleKickfire: relational algebra in a chip
I spent the day Thursday with some of Kickfire’s engineers at their headquarters. In this article, I’d like to go over a little of the system’s architecture and some other details. Everything in...
View ArticleA review of Pentaho Solutions by Roland Bouman and Jos van Dongen
Pentaho Solutions Pentaho Solutions, Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing with Pentaho and MySQL. By Roland Bouman and Jos van Dongen, Wiley 2009. Page count: about 570 pages. (Here’s a link to...
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