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Reasons for MySQL Replication Lag

(Peter Zaitsev) One common theme in the questions our MySQL Support customers ask is Replication Lag. The story is typically along the lines everything is same as before and for some unknown reason the slave is started to lag and not catching up any more. I always smile at “nothing has changed” clai

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Version Control and Version Differentiation

$$SWYNK$$ Version Control and Version Differentiation I stated last week that a key reason I don’t care for a number of software development tools is that they do not lend themselves to the ability to integrate with existing version control products allowing you to see in a human readable form the modifications from one version to the next. Most diff […]

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At Times, I Fear the Cloud

At Times, I Fear the Cloud I’m not an alarmist by nature. So I bring up the following not as a "pile-on" but rather as a "you should know about this…" Did you hear about the power outages from Amazon and Microsoft’s European cloud services? Sigh. It’s real, and it shouldn’t have happened in my humble opinion. It’s not that […]

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The Core of the (BI) Issue

The Core of the (BI) Issue…? I’ve been talking with a lot of speakers, writers and other industry professionals trying to get a handle on the challenges of successful Business Intelligence (BI) projects. One thing is becoming increasingly clear, and that is that of course you have to start in small steps. I don’t think that’s a suprirse by now. […]

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Access as a Presentation Layer Tool

Access as a Presentation Layer Tool SelecTViews With Stephen Wynkoop Watch as Stephen talks with Scott Gode from Azaleos talks about gaps between private cloud systems and Office 365. Alvin writes: I think most people writing to the editorials have already said it one way or another. There is no doubt that SQL Server is a more robust database platform […]